We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible

Web browsers are a moving target, just like operating systems. Anyone can 'build there own'; but I'd also say that it is close to impossible to build a secure and viable competing web browser that correctly implements the specification better than Chrome.

The two most important keywords in Drew's blogpost is *serious* and *security*. There is not one mention of either of those words in this blog post; hence Drew's points still stands unchallenged.

You can try, but so did Servo which was a 'serious attempt' and not even the Rust hype could convince the masses that it was better than Chrome.

I'm finding it weird that unlike other non-trivial projects like OSes or compilers,

people often discourage building web browser engine because it is "hard" or something like that

like... how is it different from building a compiler?

You gotta build HTML parser, CSS parser, figure out a fancy structure to represent those concepts and modify at fly.

Also there's difference between making it work and making state of the art.

That persons says that there's shitton of RFCs - yea sure, but you don't aim to support everything from the beginning.

Let's start with HTML + CSS, then build basic js interpreter

Sure, keeping up with all the new fancy Chrome standards is hard.

Even Mozilla can't do it.

Chrome wasn't built in a day.

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