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

I'm interested in why C++ was chosen for this? Browsers are notoriously hard to secure, they're effectively mean to be RCE vulnerabilities! Securing C++ binaries is hard and has in recent years been called out by numerous organisations and companies as being the root cause of many classes of security vulnerability. With languages like (but not limited to) Rust, we now have better options.

There already is a Rust web engine, it's called Servo, and it's currently being overtaken by the C++ Ladybird project.

Rust is a bad language to write an open source browser in because the hardest problem of building a browser is not security but the number of people you can convince to work on it.

C++ programmers are a dime a dozen, there's a huge number of people who write C++ for 8 hours a day. The Rust community is mostly dabblers like myself.