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by fbouvier 2y ago
We have also considered JavaScriptCore (used by Bun) and QuickJS. We did choose v8 because it's state of the art, quite well documented and easy to embed. The code is made to support others JS engine in the future. We do want to add a
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by fbouvier 2y ago
Author here. The browser is made from scratch (not based on Chromium/Webkit), in Zig, using v8 as a JS engine. Our idea is to build a lightweight browser optimized for AI use cases like LLM training and agent workflows. And more genera
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by fbouvier 2y ago
Author here. The browser is made from scratch (not based on Chromium/Webkit), in Zig, using v8 as a JS engine and Netsurf HTML5 parser. It's a work in progress, there are hundreds of Web APIs, and for now we just support some of t
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by fbouvier 2y ago
You're absolutely right, the 'most websites will fail' note is there because we're still in development, and the browser doesn't yet handle the long tail of web APIs. That said, the architecture's coming togeth
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by fbouvier 2y ago
Hey Anirudh, Stagehand looks awesome, congrats. Really love the focus on making browser automations more resilient to DOM changes. The act, extract, and observe methods are super clean. You might want to check out Lightpanda ( https:/&
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Show HN: Lightpanda, an open-source headless browser in Zig(github.com)
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by fbouvier 4y ago
Coming from a Go background I found it quite easy to use Zig, as the language is small and you can be proficient in few days. Of course you have more to handle by yourself in Zig. For example a simple string concatenation will need more wor
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by fbouvier 4y ago
As said by @laserbeam there is no implementation of concurrency built-in Zig language, just primitives. There is one event loop in the stdlib, but it has some limitations and there is some discussion to change it or remove it https:/&
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by fbouvier 4y ago
They have done great contribution for async I/O in the Zig community: - io_uring support on the std lib https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/6356 - a cross-platform io_uring based event loop https:/
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by fbouvier 4y ago
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