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by fcpguru 40 days ago
why not join up with https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird ?
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roschdal 40 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 40 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 40 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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