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The new website looks great! And it seems new maintainers have stepped up. Is Luakit on an upswing? This project could have immense value to the web. Having

The new website looks great! And it seems new maintainers have stepped up. Is Luakit on an upswing? This project could have immense value to the web. Having multiple language communities working on the same types of problems, and in cross-cultural collaboration, gives the best approach, ie with [Model-driven engineering] ([example below]). I have reviewed Luakit's codebase, trying to figure out the extent of its DOM scripting capabilities (notes elsewhere atm). If anyone else is interested in this, pls message me on Discord, @naturallymitchell via [The Programmers Hangout] or [Luvit]. A good example issue for DOM scripting would be something like [scrolling screenshots], https://github.com/luakit/luakit/issues/763 https://github.com/luakit/luakit/issues/763 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-driven_architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-driven_architecture http://luvit.io/ http://luvit.io/ https://discord.gg/BQN6BYE https://discord.gg/BQN6BYE

curioussavage 7y ago
In my opinion what both luakit and qutebrowser need to grow or at least stay somewhat healthy is to get way easier to install the latest version. Qutebrowser the author is planning on getting pyinstaller working. For luakit I tried to get flatpak working but had issues with a dependency lfs. I'm hoping they can remove it since it's barely used at all and then the flatpak will just be ready.
O1111OOO 7y ago
Sometime back I was looking for alternative browsers and came across your comment (dated 2015)[0]: > The code itself works very well. Mason, founder of Luakit and most generous contributor, got hit by a bus so new maintainership roles have yet to get filled by existing and new users and developers. All current development takes place outside of "central" repo, and it needs organizing and compiling. Once this takes place, development and merge requests can continue full course. I actually saved the comment as a placeholder in ZIM[1] - in a section where I keep programs to try in the future. You seem to keep up with the project pretty well and it also looks like the project itself has been moving forward. Going to give it a try this time ("This project could have immense value to the web." - I agree). [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10418268 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10418268 [1] https://zim-wiki.org/ https://zim-wiki.org/

curioussavage 7y ago

In my opinion what both luakit and qutebrowser need to grow or at least stay somewhat healthy is to get way easier to install the latest version. Qutebrowser the author is planning on getting pyinstaller working. For luakit I tried to get flatpak working but had issues with a dependency lfs. I'm hoping they can remove it since it's barely used at all and then the flatpak will just be ready.

O1111OOO 7y ago

Sometime back I was looking for alternative browsers and came across your comment (dated 2015)[0]: > The code itself works very well. Mason, founder of Luakit and most generous contributor, got hit by a bus so new maintainership roles have yet to get filled by existing and new users and developers. All current development takes place outside of "central" repo, and it needs organizing and compiling. Once this takes place, development and merge requests can continue full course. I actually saved the comment as a placeholder in ZIM[1] - in a section where I keep programs to try in the future. You seem to keep up with the project pretty well and it also looks like the project itself has been moving forward. Going to give it a try this time ("This project could have immense value to the web." - I agree). [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10418268 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10418268 [1] https://zim-wiki.org/ https://zim-wiki.org/