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Show HN: NEXT Browser – A Lisp-based browser
6 points by jmercouris 9y ago|3 comments
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Show HN: NEXT Browser – A Lisp-based power browser
6 points by jmercouris 9y ago|0 comments
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by jmercouris 9y ago
Compiled Common Lisp can be quite fast, but not fast enough. Additionally, I don't see the added value in having the rendering be done in Lisp, I'm only interested in the manipulation of the data in Lisp
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by jmercouris 9y ago
Hi Flavio, no problem, happy to make your day!! Unfortunately I don’t have access to a Windows machine. The EQL5 repository has a readme, which I believe has windows instructions, if you can run EQL5, running nEXT is trivial, you would just
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by jmercouris 9y ago
An interesting idea, but a browser is only designed to render and manage web pages, I think what you’re more talking about is the underlying protocol and network implementation
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by jmercouris 9y ago
Well, that would be quite slow :D You’re right in a most technical sense, it’s a lisp programmable browser
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by jmercouris 9y ago
Hi yes! They are available for Mac OS High Sierra from release 0.03 onwards Working on others too!
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by jmercouris 9y ago
Hi zeveb, thank you for the kind words! I have thought about that, and afaik that is the approach of CommonQT, definitely a good solution, but I chose EQL + ECL specifically due to the fantastic support their respective developers provided.
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by jmercouris 9y ago
Hi! Thank you for the kind words!
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by jmercouris 9y ago
Hi Sean, thank you for your feedback. You're right, it's probably not a really good idea. I'm open to any ideas for names, having said all of that, I really like the name nEXT Browser because it gives an idea of efficiency, p
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by jmercouris 9y ago
Hi! Thank you!!
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Show HN: nEXT Browser – A Lisp-based browser
132 points by jmercouris 9y ago|44 comments