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Does anyone know of any attempts at writing new web engines? Or at least one built off of WebKit to diverge from Chromium?


It is one of our dreams to resurrect this: https://github.com/atlas-engineer/closure



Flow sounds really cool, a multi threaded browser engine. Most modern ones are forked from KHTML, an engine designed in the 90's before multi threading was possible for consumer computers.

They only have 8 developers on the team. I wish them well, but what do they have to offer that vendors and consumers really need? Do people really complain about Chromium being too slow? I wouldn't imagine, if most of the users on the web are using it. Then again I don't know about the niche mysterious world of elite internet browsing.


Servo?


Mozilla laid off a lot of the Servo engineers. It's in the hands of the Linux Foundation, so pretty much dead.




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