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Re:Ask HN: If I wanted to make a web browser, where would I ... by fspeech on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @11:06AM (#12390794)
Servo https://github.com/servo/servo is a browser rewrite in Rust. Could be a good place to start.
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Re:Ask HN: If I wanted to make a web browser, where would I ... by zamalek on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @11:12AM (#12390851)
Or a good study if the the goal language is different. Studying a clean codebase is where I'd start, there is likely a lot of tribal knowledge in HTML rendering (especially layout) that isn't documented anywhere but in code.
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