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We are still far from where Servo or Ladybird are, but we are able to do a lot of neat things already: html5/css3 parsing works, we have a modular system that allows multiple backend renderers, sites are starting to look like sites instead of garbled text and we are in the process of implementing process isolation.

During this time, i tried to blog the experience, the planning and the things we've faced over time.

Happy to answer any questions!

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So, here is the proof of concept: a browser engine for over 2 years in the making and we just got to the part where we connected a lot of moving parts into a single engine system. Rendered web pages are starting too look more and more like their intended view although we are still very far away to render everything as intended.

Our goal is to become yet another browser engine. Not the best, not the fastest, not the smallest. Just an alternative. We need more of them to keep the web open. We want our engine to be modular by design, meaning you are able to swap backend renderers, font systems, HTML/CSS parsers, render pipelines, and even the network stack if you want.

Right now, we are busy getting our process isolation system merged into our main engine so we can separate parts of the engine and confine them to the lowest possible security state.

On AI: yes, we do use and merge PR's generated by LLM's, provided all code is owned, understood, reviewed and tested. We are still formalizing this process, just like any other software project these days.

We are not as far as a Servo or Ladybird, and we don't pretend that we will ever reach that level, but we are hopeful considering that we never thought we would even come to this point. This also mean that we don't have all the organization, marketing, experience skills on building large software, so right now we are trying to get the word out for enthusiasts to join us and to make the project good enough to gain enough traction.

More information about the engine: https://gosub.io, and of course the GitHub repo: https://github.com/gosub-io/gosub-engine. You are always welcome to join us at the Zulip developer chat to say hi and ask questions.

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I'm not taking about "chatgpt, write me an android clone, make no mistakes". But large software projects do not have to be a solely large player game anymore. I think that with much and much less resources, there can be new alternative phone os'es either or not even based on android.

The biggest issue is market share and lock-in where this problem falls into. But this happens in every monopoly that exists. The technical barrier not a technical problem anymore, its now a political one.

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There are a lot of things that can (and will) go wrong when it comes to computers, life, work, holiday and cats. This project will send you disaster drills when you least expect it to see how well prepared you are. It contains tips and tricks and you can score yourself and match against others on your preparedness level.

I've set this up as a small weekend side-project for two reasons: first, because i fail too often when it comes to disaster prepping myself, and secondly, I was very curious to see if I could use LLM systems like chatgpt and deepseek to "generate" apps/sites. Turns out that it wasn't too bad, although i wouldn't fire my whole development team just yet.

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I was surprised with the actual code that was generated (symfony7), and even though it sometimes got things completely wrong, i found that with some nudges in the right direction, it ultimately could figure things out well enough for me to incorporate. Although, without any (deep) knowledge of what I'm wanting to do, or symfony knowledge, i would not have been able to create this project.

So about the project: Suppose you lost your phone. How would you cope with this situation? What is your laptop failed to start up? Would you have backups? Have you tried to restore them? Do you have a plan on how to get back up and running quickly?

There are a lot of things that can (and will) go wrong when it comes to computers, life, work, holiday and cats. This project will send you when you least expect it a disaster drill with a scenario to see how well prepared you are. It contains tips and tricks and you can score yourself and match against others on your preparedness level.