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I started reading the first snapshot they had (1996), and noticed that there was once a web browser called Grail which aimed to be a web browser completely writ
by jrockway 5y ago
I started reading the first snapshot they had (1996), and noticed that there was once a web browser called Grail which aimed to be a web browser completely written in Python: https://arquivo.pt/wayback/19961013225840/http://monty.cnri.reston.va.us:80/grail/ https://arquivo.pt/wayback/19961013225840/http://monty.cnri.... Very neat stuff. Almost 30 years later, I bet someone would have enjoyed that. (If it had taken off, we might be scripting web pages in Python instead of Javascript, even!)
The website is actually still up: http://grail.sourceforge.net/ http://grail.sourceforge.net/ The latest minor release is from 1999.
- OJFord 5y ago> If it had taken off, we might be scripting web pages in Python instead of Javascript, even! It was a candidate I believe, but it's not easy to search for information on that...
- whatshisface 5y agoThey quit working on it when it was realized that stopping arbitrary code execution via escalation from isolated code execution was practically impossible to stop in the interpreter.