Nordstjernen Web Browser

https://www.nordstjernen.org/

by roschdal • 2 months ago

15 9 2 months ago

nordstjernen.org

d3Xt3r• 2 months ago

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.

roschdal4• 2 months ago

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.

Asraelite• 2 months ago

Copyright © 1997 the Nordstjernen project

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.

b0in3• 2 months ago

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".

roschdal4• 2 months ago

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.

b0in3• 2 months ago

Are you ok?

Nordstjernen Web Browser

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