Show HN: We launched a new web browser

• beacon

  10 133 0.0 C++

  Beacon browser for desktop (by imperviousinc)

  

Why are you swallowing "error" from invoking the "reall" tool? That seems like a great way to make contributors really frustrated: https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon/blob/main/tools/src/...

and again https://github.com/imperviousinc/beacon/blob/main/tools/src/...

This trend of "I'm going to invent some build tool because there are not enough build tools in the world" is evidently leaking out of the node ecosystem

For clarity, I did see that this was inspired by the brave-browser model, but of the ones to draw inspiration from, that's for sure not it given that their CI is closed source and they're trying to use npm in lieu of a more structured, comprehensible system

I like trying out alternate browsers, so congratulations on the launch, and I'll for sure try to build it, but I wanted to draw these to your attention because my experience with software is that error handling is about 80% of the job

• nyxt

  150 9,546 9.8 Common Lisp

  Nyxt - the hacker's browser.

  

Neat and some interesting todo/roadmap items too! Will be keeping an eye on this.

Random thought, perhaps for later: some form of keyboard-centric navigation functionality - boosts your UX differentiation and it likely speaks to your target audience. Something along the lines of Nyxt browser[1] or the popular Vimium extension[2].

[1] https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/

[2] https://github.com/philc/vimium

• InfluxDB

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• vimium

  52 22,285 9.3 JavaScript

  The hacker's browser.

Neat and some interesting todo/roadmap items too! Will be keeping an eye on this.

Random thought, perhaps for later: some form of keyboard-centric navigation functionality - boosts your UX differentiation and it likely speaks to your target audience. Something along the lines of Nyxt browser[1] or the popular Vimium extension[2].

[1] https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/

[2] https://github.com/philc/vimium

• dom-examples

  87 3,173 7.7 JavaScript

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

  

Thats one. Just look at some of the specs that have to be implemented. There are so many most devs have probably never even heard of. It's really mind boggling the amount of work required to create a full browser from scratch.

List of web APIs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API

• Servo

  134 26,117 10.0 Rust

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

  

> Mozilla had a project called Servo which aimed at replacing just a small slither of Firefox and the project ran for years with a huge monetary investment and eventually was canceled.

Haven't some parts of it been integrated in Firefox?

The project does still seem to go on, although outside of Mozilla: https://github.com/servo/servo

• libjs-test262

  4 28 1.9 Python

  Discontinued ✅ Tools for running the test262 ECMAScript test suite with SerenityOS's JavaScript engine (LibJS)

> Our JavaScript engine is decently mature, test262 score tracked here: https://libjs.dev/test262/

In a few years when they have achieved feature parity with Chromium or at least Safari we can discuss this again, but for now it's not ready for real life use.

• tersenet

  8 107 1.8 Nim

  A new type of JavaScript-free light-weight fast browser built on rst and web assembly. Does not actually exist.

Seems really interesting so I have been Googling to try to figure out what you are talking about. Is the Hydraulic product a way to easily deploy GraalVM software? And maybe by adding some type of search and document browsing capability, it can become a new type of web browser?

Could you take a look at my comment in this thread and also at https://github.com/runvnc/tersenet

I have not totally updated that but my current thinking is that we really want to finish deconstructing the overlay operating system that the "web browser" has become. For example, we should actually not bundle the information browsing program and application VM together, but rather have a simple standard for them to work together. Such as, the info browser can save the list of the application binaries to a file that the VM system knows to watch.

We also actually want to further decompose this into a multilevel window manager concept. On the first level, just a rule that applications save and reload window layouts.

I really think it should be a goal to standardize on some web assembly extension with simple UI features like canvas or framebuffer and keyboard events.

• SaaSHub

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