Opossum: Cross-platform web browser written in Golang, optimized for Plan 9

• opossum

  9 388 10.0 Go

  Rudimentary web browser written in Golang (by psilva261)

• cleansheets

  1 5 10.0 Go

  Experimental implementations of web technology in Go.

Even though Go is unlikely to be an ideal choice for a web browser, I had definitely wanted to venture into it just as a toy project. Unfortunately, it's obviously an enormous project, so I am absolutely nowhere on it.

That said, shameless plug: if anyone wants a reasonably complete but immature ECMA262 parser in Go, I did do that. You can see how (un)finished it is here, with the wasm build: https://cleansheets.io/parser/ - source here. https://github.com/jchv/cleansheets

The truth is, I'd like to still work on this and even see if it's plausible to build a decent JIT without going too far into the weeds (I wouldn't tolerate a requirement on Cgo personally) but given that I never even pushed up an interpreter (I had an AST-based interpreter, but it was so ugly that I scrapped it :) I doubt I'll get anywhere near Opossum. Oh well.

It'd still be fun to at least get some pages rendering. Probably no chance in hell I'd ever get over to milestones I'd actually like to (like booting GMail for example.)

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• awesome-browser

  1 86 2.8

  A list of awesome web browser related stuff

Nice! I'm glad to see more people are interested in creating browser from scratch. Tho like the "OS from scratch" trend, most of those browsers won't be as nearly as performant or complete as those market-leading browsers without ton of work put into it. Making a browser is not a one man job.

But it's certainly fun to make a browser! I happen to keep track of the open-source browser projects & resources here if anyone is interested:

https://github.com/ZeroX-DG/awesome-browser

• taffy

  36 1,807 8.5 Rust

  A high performance rust-powered UI layout library

  

Huh, interesting that you implemented flow (block/inline) layout but not Flexbox or CSS Grid. I've been working on a library has the opposite! (it support Flexbox and CSS Grid, but not flow layout). Here if you're interested:

https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy

I'll definitely take a look at your browser when I get some time.

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