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FOSS Browser replacement projects? (midwest.social)

submitted 1 month ago by peoplebeproblems@midwest.social to c/programming@programming.dev

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Is anyone aware of any FOSS browser replacement projects? Being a "full stack dev" (feels like a false skill set most of the time) I'm at this point where there are easily enough of us who have struggled with implementing web apps in the various frameworks and tools that essentially all boil down to JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

There's nothing wrong with them individually, but with modern languages and hardware we should be able to make something better. At least in a way to encourage adoption of something better, and I want to contribute to it.

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[–] who@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Can you clarify what you're asking for?

If you mean a web browser that isn't based on Firefox or Chromium, the Ladybird project might fit.

If you mean a web-like platform that doesn't use fancy things like JavaScript, HTML and CSS, there is Gemini.

Do you mean something else?

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maybe I do mean something else. Web browsers currently implement a JavaScript engine and handle the running and memory of that code on the users machine.

Something like Typescript is a great example of an improvement, but Typescript is essentially JavaScript with rules.

Blazor allows JavaScript like interactions, allows the developer to write in C# but gets rendered serverside.

So essentially, I'm looking for a web engine that provides JavaScript like interaction in some other well defined language like Rust, C#, etc.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Blazor allows JavaScript like interactions, allows the developer to write in C# but gets rendered serverside

Blazor can compile .NET to Webassembly and run that in the web-browser.

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