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this uses a C++ rendering engine

medo-bear 4y ago
so what ? the parent asked for a web browser. nyxt is rendering-engine agnostic by design otoh how much rust is there in firefox? a: https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/
- abdulhaq 4y ago
  the hard part about a web browser is the rendering engine, which is why it was raised as a challenge. Sticking a Lisp front end over an existing rendering engine doesn't answer the challenge.
  - medo-bear 4y ago
    then he didnt ask the right question. nyxt is a browser in every sense of the word. anyway there is no reason lisp cant be used for making a good rendering engine
jlarocco 4y ago
Here's a browser written in pure Common Lisp: https://closure.common-lisp.dev/ https://closure.common-lisp.dev/ These questions are so silly. Nobody's written a web-browser in Rust, Python, Ruby, Java, Clojure, Haskell, Erlang, Typescript, Javascript, etc. but that hasn't stopped anybody from using them. Just admit you don't want to learn Lisp.
- bitwize 4y ago
  Doesn't support HTML5, CSS3, JS. Non-starter.
- abdulhaq 4y ago
  I learnt Lisp sometime around 1986 (from library books and later, on the Sinclair QL LOL), I do love it in some ways, but found distribution of final code to be an issue. I don't think it's suitable for all tasks.
  - medo-bear 4y ago
    > but found distribution of final code to be an issue in 1986 ? > don't think it's suitable for all tasks to this day im yet to see an example of a software engineering problem that lisp is not suitable to solve. if you have such an example ready i would be genuinely curious. otherwise its just a thought from a very common and lazy misunderstanding of what lisp actually is im talking about computational problems. things that are non-examples include such things as business sense/requirements, availability of programers, availability of ready made libraries/frameworks, or claims of apparent unsuitabilty in large teams

so what ? the parent asked for a web browser. nyxt is rendering-engine agnostic by design otoh how much rust is there in firefox? a: https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/

abdulhaq 4y ago
the hard part about a web browser is the rendering engine, which is why it was raised as a challenge. Sticking a Lisp front end over an existing rendering engine doesn't answer the challenge.
- medo-bear 4y ago
  then he didnt ask the right question. nyxt is a browser in every sense of the word. anyway there is no reason lisp cant be used for making a good rendering engine

jlarocco 4y ago

Here's a browser written in pure Common Lisp: https://closure.common-lisp.dev/ https://closure.common-lisp.dev/ These questions are so silly. Nobody's written a web-browser in Rust, Python, Ruby, Java, Clojure, Haskell, Erlang, Typescript, Javascript, etc. but that hasn't stopped anybody from using them. Just admit you don't want to learn Lisp.

bitwize 4y ago
Doesn't support HTML5, CSS3, JS. Non-starter.
abdulhaq 4y ago
I learnt Lisp sometime around 1986 (from library books and later, on the Sinclair QL LOL), I do love it in some ways, but found distribution of final code to be an issue. I don't think it's suitable for all tasks.
- medo-bear 4y ago
  > but found distribution of final code to be an issue in 1986 ? > don't think it's suitable for all tasks to this day im yet to see an example of a software engineering problem that lisp is not suitable to solve. if you have such an example ready i would be genuinely curious. otherwise its just a thought from a very common and lazy misunderstanding of what lisp actually is im talking about computational problems. things that are non-examples include such things as business sense/requirements, availability of programers, availability of ready made libraries/frameworks, or claims of apparent unsuitabilty in large teams