Re:Nordstjernen Web Browser
by d3Xt3r on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @01:19AM
(#48189470)
> An independent web browser written in C.
Cool! We need more indie browsers.
> No Blink, no Gecko, no WebKit, no JIT. No telemetry, ever.
Excellent. This person speaks my language.
> UI: GTK 4
WTF?! Why?! Why do people keep defaulting to that bloated turd of a toolkit, even in the era of LLMs? The dev is clearly using Claude, they could've very easily vibe coded to use a better toolkit. I can't fathom what made them choose GTK out of all things, especially considering they're going for the minimalism thing.
Re:Nordstjernen Web Browser
by roschdal on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @01:40AM
(#48189619)
GTK 4 completely overhauled its rendering pipeline. It finally ditched the old CPU-bound Cairo rendering in favor of a modern scene graph (GSK) that natively leverages OpenGL and Vulkan.
This browser is C, while Qt needs C++ normally. Maybe I will make my own toolkit, like the Chrome Aura.
Did this project exist in some form since 1997? The Wayback Machine shows that the website was previously completely different - a fan site for someone connected to the Norwegian royal family.
Re:Nordstjernen Web Browser
by b0in on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @05:56AM
(#48191332)
I'm...suspicious. 10 months ago this account was whinging about the evils of AI and this is heavily AI driven code. README claims to be a Norwegian developed browser but account is in Qatar. Andreas Røsdal has two github accounts, both andreasrosdal and andreasrosdalw, one of which has forked a project from the other or I would just think "oh two people with the same name".
Re:Nordstjernen Web Browser
by roschdal on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @06:18AM
(#48191488)
I am making this web browser, ask me anything. I have two GitHub accounts, one for private and another for work. I am using Claude to make this web browser. I live in Norway now, I used to live in Qatar before.
Cool! We need more indie browsers.
> No Blink, no Gecko, no WebKit, no JIT. No telemetry, ever.
Excellent. This person speaks my language.
> UI: GTK 4
WTF?! Why?! Why do people keep defaulting to that bloated turd of a toolkit, even in the era of LLMs? The dev is clearly using Claude, they could've very easily vibe coded to use a better toolkit. I can't fathom what made them choose GTK out of all things, especially considering they're going for the minimalism thing.
Did this project exist in some form since 1997? The Wayback Machine shows that the website was previously completely different - a fan site for someone connected to the Norwegian royal family.