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Re:Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0 by mastrsushi on Thursday May 20, 2021 @03:40PM (#27226096)
Does anyone know of any attempts at writing new web engines? Or at least one built off of WebKit to diverge from Chromium?
Re:Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0 by jmercouris on Thursday May 20, 2021 @04:23PM (#27226698)
It is one of our dreams to resurrect this: https://github.com/atlas-engineer/closure
Re:Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0 by ahane on Thursday May 20, 2021 @03:48PM (#27226192)
Re:Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0 by mastrsushi on Thursday May 20, 2021 @09:07PM (#27229399)
Flow sounds really cool, a multi threaded browser engine. Most modern ones are forked from KHTML, an engine designed in the 90's before multi threading was possible for consumer computers.

They only have 8 developers on the team. I wish them well, but what do they have to offer that vendors and consumers really need? Do people really complain about Chromium being too slow? I wouldn't imagine, if most of the users on the web are using it. Then again I don't know about the niche mysterious world of elite internet browsing.

Re:Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0 by O_H_E on Thursday May 20, 2021 @05:04PM (#27227230)
Servo?
Re:Show HN: Nyxt Browser 2.0.0 by mastrsushi on Thursday May 20, 2021 @08:58PM (#27229348)
Mozilla laid off a lot of the Servo engineers. It's in the hands of the Linux Foundation, so pretty much dead.