The Ladybird Browser Project

• WHATWG HTML Standard

  137 7,685 9.4 HTML

  HTML Standard

  

> if we're finally seeing fruits of browsers being better standardized on "95%"+ of the popular features -- and if writing a browser today is in fact easier than both writing AND maintaining a browser a decade back.

A decade back, maybe... but decades ago the number of things you had to support was just so much smaller even if you only look at HTML! Consider https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1866.txt vs https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/

• serenity

  240 28,555 10.0 C++

  The Serenity Operating System 🐞

  

It is a SerenityOS project. You can find the answer to that question in their primary project's FAQ[1].

1. https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Documenta...

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• wpt

  20 4,627 10.0 HTML

  Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others

  

It also helps that there are tests

https://web-platform-tests.org/

• dom-examples

  86 3,148 7.8 JavaScript

  Code examples that accompany various MDN DOM and Web API documentation pages

  

> if writing a browser today is in fact easier than both writing AND maintaining a browser a decade back.

Probably not. Yeah we have web standards and some idea of how to architect it, but the total set of APIs and HTML/CSS/JS features a browser supports is probably changing faster than the Ladybird team can actively implement it. The API surface is just impossibly large compared to 10 or 15 years ago. Look at all of these: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API

• test262

  5 2,190 9.2 JavaScript

  Official ECMAScript Conformance Test Suite

  

Indeed. These may be even more important...

https://github.com/tc39/test262

• Servo

  133 26,008 10.0 Rust

  Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine

  

Great to see some competition still alive in browser engine development. See also Servo (previously part of Mozilla) https://servo.org/ - that and Ladybird are still very underdeveloped compared to every day browsers.

It's a huge shame that there are no nightly builds of ladybird to try out but I assume that's because they just don't want the bug reports (if everything doesn't work it's pointless getting random bugs filed).

• cli

  253 35,387 9.7 Go

  GitHub’s official command line tool

  

You might be interested in GitHub's cli tool, which is open source, if you want to access GitHub without running their proprietary JS code.

https://cli.github.com/

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