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Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)

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233 points monax | 2 comments | 18 May 25 17:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.554s | source

We’ve been working on Vaev, a minimal web browser engine built from scratch. It supports HTML/XHTML, the CSS cascade, @page rules for pagination, and print-to-PDF rendering. It even handles calc(), var(), and percentage units—and yes, it renders Google.com (mostly).

This is an experimental project focused on learning and exploration. Networking is basic (http:// and file:// only), and grid layouts aren’t supported yet, but we’re making progress fast.

We’d love your thoughts and feedback.

1. guywithahat ◴[19 May 25 03:28 UTC] No.44026313[source]▶
I don't mean this as a slight against you but it's incredible how much code it takes to write a browser that barely works. I've always thought it would be fun to write a browser in erlang/elixir due to its fault tolerance (a memory from the early days when browsers would constantly crash), but browsers are so outrageously complex with such intense performance requirements the thought of even creating a repo sickens me. I mean it looks like you guys have 100+ files, with half of the files being ~500+ lines of code.

Incredible work and dedication

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2. norman784 ◴[19 May 25 07:37 UTC] No.44027353[source]▶
Browsers might be the second most complex project you could build, the first one is an OS, also browsers can be categorized as an OS actually.