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Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

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Re: Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

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Post by sesm »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #31
monacobolid wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For UI portion of their Mac OS version? What am I missing?

For everything. Swift is—at least in theory—a general purpose language, it's not exclusively for Apple technologies. > First off, Swift has both memory & data race safety (as of v6). It's also a modern language with solid ergonomics. > Something that matters to us a lot is OO. Web specs & browser internals tend to be highly object-oriented, and life is easier when you can model specs closely in your code. Swift has f…

> First off, Swift has both memory & data race safety (as of v6)

But v6 is not released yet, right?

Re: Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

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Post by [deleted] »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #31
monacobolid wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For UI portion of their Mac OS version? What am I missing?

For everything. Swift is—at least in theory—a general purpose language, it's not exclusively for Apple technologies. > First off, Swift has both memory & data race safety (as of v6). It's also a modern language with solid ergonomics. > Something that matters to us a lot is OO. Web specs & browser internals tend to be highly object-oriented, and life is easier when you can model specs closely in your code. Swift has f…

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Re: Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

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Post by mdaniel »

rubymamis wrote: post #43

The x64.dmg release[1] requires macOS 13+, why? [1] https://web.crabnebula.cloud/verso/verso-nightly/releases

I'd hypothesize it's due to https://github.com/versotile-org/verso/blob/07a88a86347c6763... and I thought maybe that was the lowest GH offered since they used an actual number versus "-latest" but no, GH does offer 12 https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runne...

Since they already went to the trouble of writing the GHA, I just downgraded and gave it a whirl and it both completed and the resulting artifact launched a-ok on my 12.7.6 x86_64: https://github.com/mdaniel/verso/actions/runs/10341237698/jo...

I'm posting this reply from that build, although I had to compose the answer over in FF because the textarea doesn't scroll :-D

Re: Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

#96

Post by ncruces »

TheRealPomax wrote: post #81

It'd be nice if people stopped recommending "yet another new and exciting package manager for Windows" that you have no idea of whether you can trust it or not. Git, Python, llvm, cmake, and curl all have perfectly normal windows installers available from their own websites, and if you're a programmer who has to, or chooses to work on Window, it's a good bet you already have either most or all of these already instal…

Scoop is nice because, like homebrew, it's easy for package creators to create their own “buckets” and distribute packages that way.

Re: Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

#97

Post by hanniabu »

38 wrote: post #80
hanniabu wrote: post #71

There's still zero day exploits found in chromium, wouldn't using using this put you at a huge risk of running into malware in the wild that this browser can't protect against?

I agree, no one should ever bother writing a new browser again, too risky. We should just use chrome forever

Why not just fork chromium with all the Google analytics/tracking removed?

Re: Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

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Post by TheRealPomax »

ncruces wrote: post #96
TheRealPomax wrote: post #81

It'd be nice if people stopped recommending "yet another new and exciting package manager for Windows" that you have no idea of whether you can trust it or not. Git, Python, llvm, cmake, and curl all have perfectly normal windows installers available from their own websites, and if you're a programmer who has to, or chooses to work on Window, it's a good bet you already have either most or all of these already instal…

Scoop is nice because, like homebrew, it's easy for package creators to create their own “buckets” and distribute packages that way.

I'm sure, but it's also "yet another package manager" because everyone has their own favourite package manager. It's a nit, but it's nice when a README.md goes "you need X, Y, and Z" and doesn't pretend you need a specific method for that. Tiny phrasing change, zero real world difference of course, but it's a nice little sign that the folks running a project know that you know what you're doing on the OS you're working with (either by choice, or by paycheque =)

Re: Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

#99

Post by wahnfrieden »

sesm wrote: post #91
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For everything. Swift is—at least in theory—a general purpose language, it's not exclusively for Apple technologies. > First off, Swift has both memory & data race safety (as of v6). It's also a modern language with solid ergonomics. > Something that matters to us a lot is OO. Web specs & browser internals tend to be highly object-oriented, and life is easier when you can model specs closely in your code. Swift has f…

> First off, Swift has both memory & data race safety (as of v6) But v6 is not released yet, right?

next month

Re: Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

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Post by RandomThoughts3 »

breakfastduck wrote: post #60
RandomThoughts3 wrote: post #36

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Ladybird exists and is funded because the main author is an extremely skilled software developer with a background in building web browsers. He also built a totally from scratch operating system, and built a very productive and skilled community around it, which branched into building their own web browser as SerenityOS has an 'everything from scratch' policy. How is Serenity not an interesting feat of engineering? Y…

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