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by roschdal 36 days ago
I am making this web browser. Ask me anything. Bug report welcome.
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thisislife2 36 days ago
Good effort! Did you consider using Netsurf codebase ( https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ ) or contributing to it? (The website is outdated but the development is ongoing and active).
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lewisjoe 36 days ago
Congrats on the journey. How did you implement the layouting engine? And how much of an effort did it take?
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fcpguru 36 days ago
why not join up with https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird ?
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roschdal 36 days ago
Nordstjernen is a ~30 kLOC solo-built C browser aimed at being a small, hardened web reader for the text-heavy web, while Ladybird is a ~500 kLOC funded C++ project aiming to be a fully standards-compliant third browser engine alongside Blink, WebKit, and Gecko.
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fcpguru 36 days ago
ok good answer. next q: why not team up with https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser and zig and make this both the small headless browser + a human one
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roschdal 36 days ago
Nordstjernen is a small, sandboxed, JIT-free GTK browser for humans to read the web; Lightpanda is a Zig-based headless V8 browser for AI agents to script it.
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tuwtuwtuwtuw 36 days ago
It looks like AI slop. Is it AI slop?
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flustercan 36 days ago
Are you asking the author to validate your own opinion? Why don't you explain why you think its slop and provide some evidence to back up your assertions and we can have a real discussion.
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tuwtuwtuwtuw 36 days ago
No, I am asking the author whether it's AI slop.

As for evidence, sir, this is a wendys.

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drabbiticus 36 days ago
slop is such a poorly defined term that it's very hard to answer your question meaningfully. Is all code generated by AI slop? Many different opinions on this and questions to be answered as LLMs continue to shift the programming landscape.

Having said that, you could have just clicked the link and found https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen/commits/mai... with a bunch of commits by claude. It took longer to write this than it took to figure out whether AI was used.

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tuwtuwtuwtuw 36 days ago
Yeah, why do you think I said it looks like AI slop?
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roschdal 36 days ago
I think this criticism is very poor. Claude is competent and well suited for implementing a web browser.
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tuwtuwtuwtuw 35 days ago
I took a look at the code, it showed the usual tells for slop, hence my question.

Claude is well suited for many things, it does not mean that it never is used to generate slop.

Just read the linked Readme if you don't want to read the code, it's the usual slop.

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