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Re:Ask HN: Know some Good C programming communities? by tus666 on Sunday April 17, 2022 @06:13PM (#31064994)
What is the background of this project? Is it a learning exercise or aiming for some functional benefit?
Re:Ask HN: Know some Good C programming communities? by leakbang on Sunday April 17, 2022 @06:31PM (#31065119)
The aim of the project is to create a useful, minimal, and fast web browser. But we all are learning as we are developing it :D
Re:Ask HN: Know some Good C programming communities? by zzo38computer on Monday April 18, 2022 @02:48AM (#31068085)
If it is FOSS, I think it will be necessary, since many modern web browsers have many problems. Will you be able to write extensions to the browser in C? Would have many feature assuming advanced users only? If so, that would be an improvement, I think.
Re:Ask HN: Know some Good C programming communities? by leakbang on Monday April 18, 2022 @08:24AM (#31069740)
The project is still very early on in development so we haven't decided how to handle extensions/add-ons. But it would definitely be neat and unique if the browser extensions are also written in C. But the idea behind the browser is to create an unbloated, fast, and responsive browser that is also easy to use.
Re:Ask HN: Know some Good C programming communities? by 0x20cowboy on Monday April 18, 2022 @12:13AM (#31067362)
Would love to contribute. Especially if it’s Javascript free. Any plans to open source?
Re:Ask HN: Know some Good C programming communities? by leakbang on Monday April 18, 2022 @08:20AM (#31069712)
Yeah the browser is open source, but the project is very early in development. After the project has a stable basis, we will fully embrace the FOSS mindset and make contributions open.
Re:Ask HN: Know some Good C programming communities? by 2143 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @03:03PM (#31101426)
It's cool that you're doing this.

Why not Rust?

Re:Ask HN: Know some Good C programming communities? by leakbang on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @03:35PM (#31101809)
I evaluated a lot of languages before settling down on C. I have 2 main reasons why I chose C. One is that I wanted to pay homage to many great programmers who wrote industry-pushing software in C. The other reason was that I wanted to start from 'scratch' and use as few pre-made libraries as possible. I think there is a lot of fun in starting a project like this from 0 and figuring out everything on the go :D
Re:Ask HN: Know some Good C programming communities? by 2143 on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:54PM (#31105263)
Rust is rather low level, yet it offers memory safety.

> One is that I wanted to pay homage to many great programmers who wrote industry-pushing software in C.

Some of those great programmers might probably have chosen other languages if they existed back then.

Anyway, I think what you're doing is pretty cool and I wish you all the success in whatever language you choose to do this in.

Re:Ask HN: Know some Good C programming communities? by leakbang on Thursday April 21, 2022 @04:13PM (#31114630)
Thank you for the advice and the good wishes :)