If you have a closer look, they did drop javascript a long time ago. duktap is just a remnant of this past. netsurf is mostly a noscript (x)HTML parser with a C

If you have a closer look, they did drop javascript a long time ago. duktap is just a remnant of this past. netsurf is mostly a noscript (x)HTML parser with a CSS renderer. I am not a user of netsurf, I use links2/lynx and edbrowse, but I was planning to write my own frontend to their CSS renderer (noscript). You can ask them how technically _insane_ is the javascript-ed web. They have a good idea, they tried and broke their jaws on it, and they work is rather very clean. Their code is plain and simple C, namely their libs (because they did things cleanly), can be used as a stepping stone to write your own noscript browser, and if you want with CSS rendering. Regarding the javascript-ed web, if you have 7483947398 devs for 479837438 centuries, and are able to sustain the permanent planned obsolescence and breakage of the web "standard", that for forever, you may have a chance to provide a real alternative implementation, namely not dependent on their SDK, so using a language simple enough like plain and simple C and certainly not c++/java and similar. Some are trying (still?) with rust (orders of magnitude cheaper than c++). Don't forget, blink/geeko/webkit are financed by the blackrock/vanguard galaxy of owned companies ("big tech"), we are talking tens of thousands of billions of $, namely you must be "outside" the economy to have a chance, and don't worry, if you start to have something interesting (and that without using their SDK), they'll make your life rough (they will break their web sites/javascript on your implementation actively, "buy" your devs, try to torpedo your financing, etc).