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Northstar is a minimalist web browser written from scratch in C. One window, one page, one process — about 160,000 lines of original C, small enough for one person to read and audit end-to-end. It carries no upstream browser engine: no Gecko, no WebKit, no Blink. It is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later, and it runs on Linux, macOS and Windows — on Windows from the Microsoft Store.

Northstar Browser version 1.0.12 released! A sunny ark comic on about:start, a classic Mozilla-style toolbar with address-bar suggestions, relayout and repaint that only redo what changed, popovers per the HTML standard, the Microsoft Store package, an 8 MB engine stack, and a build on Fabrice Bellard’s original QuickJS

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[-] RumRunningDevil@lemmy.zip 51 points 3 days ago

I can not tell you how tired of seeing these vibe coded projects I am.

You didn't give nearly enough of a shit to write the application, why should I give enough of a shit to use it? Could you explain, in detail, line by line, what the happy path of a standard web request is in this thing? Could you walk me through the specific engineering decisions that were made and why? Could you point to the specific regions of code that reflect those engineering decisions?

I'm beyond exhausted with these things and honestly I've gotten to the point where I'd like for us to ban non-codeberg repos

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago

Fuck. We really need more variety in the web browser space too.

[-] xep@discuss.online 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

~~Is this vibecoded? I can't find any indication in their repo that it is.~~ Nevermind, I'm blind.

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