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1. devmor+m8[view] [source] 2023-05-26 16:20:24
>>airhan+(OP)
Bring back the browser wars. I'm tired of only having essentially two browsers to choose from, both from unethical companies that use slimy marketing speak to disguise their intentions.
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2. doctor+Zs[view] [source] 2023-05-26 17:48:08
>>devmor+m8
Hear, hear! The problem is that browser complexity has exploded to the degree that at this point it seems impossible for a small team to reinvent the wheel. Who wants to write a web assembly engine from scratch, let alone the rest?

My main browser has been Waterfox which I update manually, which doubly insulated me from this. But don't misunderstand...I hate pretty much all browsers now, too.

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3. guraf+XE[view] [source] 2023-05-26 18:50:43
>>doctor+Zs
> Who wants to write a web assembly engine from scratch

Webassembly engine is one of the simpler things to implement in a browser. It's essentially a giant switch statement in a loop.

> let alone the rest?

But who said a new browser has to implement everything from scratch? Why couldn't a browser use well established libraries for things like image decoding, webasm, JavaScript, font rendering, webrtc, http, etc?

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