Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript

Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by chatmasta on Friday October 27, 2023 @06:32PM (#38044865)

This might be something you fear, maybe even legitimately, but it seems hyperbolic to assign an equivalence to your worst fear and the passion project of an individual who made this and probably does not have any of the nefarious intentions you default to attributing to anyone who could create something resembling it.

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Re:Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaSc... by edg5000 on Saturday October 28, 2023 @03:52AM (#38048014)

As a developer, JavaScript does not scale due it lacking static checkability and for some, performance. So we slap TypeScript on top, which mostly solves this problem. But starting a massive browser UI project today, I think Qt on WASM + WebGPU makes a lot of technical sense. That would have the added commercial benefit of making ad blocking harder. Although the binary could be cracked by a modified browser. The eternal cat and mouse game continues.

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