I am making this web browser, ask me anything. I have two GitHub accounts, one for private and another for work. I am using Claude to make this web browser. I live in Norway now, I used to live in Qatar before.

Are you ok?

Yes, thank you.

aha. 'w' for work. got it.

What do you think about this fine new web browser?

GTK 4 completely overhauled its rendering pipeline. It finally ditched the old CPU-bound Cairo rendering in favor of a modern scene graph (GSK) that natively leverages OpenGL and Vulkan. This browser is C, while Qt needs C++ normally. Maybe I will make my own toolkit, like the Chrome Aura.

Yes, I might change this back to 2 years, I am still thinking about the right balance between a free web browser and a commercial software product which will generate revenue.

I am making this web browser. Ask me anything. Bug report welcome.

Good effort! Did you consider using Netsurf codebase ( https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ ) or contributing to it? (The website is outdated but the development is ongoing and active).

Congrats on the journey. How did you implement the layouting engine? And how much of an effort did it take?

why not join up with https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird ?

Nordstjernen is a ~30 kLOC solo-built C browser aimed at being a small, hardened web reader for the text-heavy web, while Ladybird is a ~500 kLOC funded C++ project aiming to be a fully standards-compliant third browser engine alongside Blink, WebKit, and Gecko.

ok good answer. next q: why not team up with https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser and zig and make this both the small headless browser + a human one

Nordstjernen is a small, sandboxed, JIT-free GTK browser for humans to read the web; Lightpanda is a Zig-based headless V8 browser for AI agents to script it.

It looks like AI slop. Is it AI slop?

Are you asking the author to validate your own opinion? Why don't you explain why you think its slop and provide some evidence to back up your assertions and we can have a real discussion.

No, I am asking the author whether it's AI slop.

As for evidence, sir, this is a wendys.

slop is such a poorly defined term that it's very hard to answer your question meaningfully. Is all code generated by AI slop? Many different opinions on this and questions to be answered as LLMs continue to shift the programming landscape.

Having said that, you could have just clicked the link and found https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/nordstjernen/commits/mai... with a bunch of commits by claude. It took longer to write this than it took to figure out whether AI was used.

Yeah, why do you think I said it looks like AI slop?

I think this criticism is very poor. Claude is competent and well suited for implementing a web browser.

I took a look at the code, it showed the usual tells for slop, hence my question.

Claude is well suited for many things, it does not mean that it never is used to generate slop.

Just read the linked Readme if you don't want to read the code, it's the usual slop.

Meh. I prefer Java, all hours of the day, every day of the week.

I support forking the web, into the simple information web services that the web started with. This is a magnificent idea.

This is a qualitative survey.

I resist AI.

Too passive. Needs more willpower.

Are you looking for a answer like "buy weapons"?

Have you seen Terminator 2 - Judgement day with Arnold Schwarzenegger? That an AI resistance movement.

Fixed that for you