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FOSS Browser replacement projects? (midwest.social)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/programming
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Is anyone aware of any FOSS browser replacement projects? Being a "full stack dev" (feels like a false skill set most of the time) I'm at this point where there are easily enough of us who have struggled with implementing web apps in the various frameworks and tools that essentially all boil down to JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

There's nothing wrong with them individually, but with modern languages and hardware we should be able to make something better. At least in a way to encourage adoption of something better, and I want to contribute to it.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Maybe I do mean something else. Web browsers currently implement a JavaScript engine and handle the running and memory of that code on the users machine.

Something like Typescript is a great example of an improvement, but Typescript is essentially JavaScript with rules.

Blazor allows JavaScript like interactions, allows the developer to write in C# but gets rendered serverside.

So essentially, I'm looking for a web engine that provides JavaScript like interaction in some other well defined language like Rust, C#, etc.

[–] Kissaki 4 points 5 days ago

Blazor allows JavaScript like interactions, allows the developer to write in C# but gets rendered serverside

Blazor can compile .NET to Webassembly and run that in the web-browser.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Current web browser engines generally support JavaScript and WebAssembly, and no others (unless via a plugin, as with Java).

So, if I understand you correctly, your options are to find a language that transpiles down to one of those two (several such languages exist), or find an engine that isn't precisely a web engine but supports some alternative language(s). I don't know any useful examples of the latter, but perhaps someone else will chime in with something like that.