Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

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Post by signa11 » Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 1:46 AM UTC

Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser
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Re: Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

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Post by groceryheist » Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 5:09 AM UTC

This is so cool! I'm someone for whom emacs has steadily expanded its role in my computing life, but who will never adopt a text-based browser as a daily driver. Looking forward to the stable 4.0 release when I'll be prepared to use Nyxt and hope it can replace Firefox / Chromium as much as possible for me.

Re: Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

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Post by iLemming » Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 5:15 AM UTC

Does it finally work on Macs without weird rituals? I love the idea of using only Linux, but I'm too stupid to deserve an employer who'd let me live my dreams. I'm just happy I'm not forced to use Windows.

Re: Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

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Post by izhak » Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 5:25 AM UTC

The guys behind have decent lisp and hacking skills and zero to none product thinking. The project is around for a while but the complete lack of ability to think about users or from the users perpective makes it a dead end

Re: Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

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Post by bowsamic » Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 5:28 AM UTC

izhak wrote: post #4

The guys behind have decent lisp and hacking skills and zero to none product thinking. The project is around for a while but the complete lack of ability to think about users or from the users perpective makes it a dead end

Can you elaborate? In what ways have they failed their users?

Re: Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

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Post by deadlypointer » Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 5:31 AM UTC

How does it stack up in terms of security? To me the idea of hackability is a bit conflicting with all the security features of modern browsers. The web is basically the main attack surface today, so I wouldn't use a niche browser engine.

Re: Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

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Post by ironmagma » Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 5:31 AM UTC

So now we have Next, Nuxt, and Nyxt. What’s noxt?

Re: Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

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Post by jnpnj » Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 5:34 AM UTC

izhak wrote: post #4

The guys behind have decent lisp and hacking skills and zero to none product thinking. The project is around for a while but the complete lack of ability to think about users or from the users perpective makes it a dead end

I think there's a lack of understanding. If Nyxt is trying to be the emacs of web browsers, it's very much removed from the "product mindset", it's more about somehow coherent capabilities than a product with market and users. Kinda like linux.

Re: Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

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Post by mickael-kerjean » Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 6:18 AM UTC

izhak wrote: post #4

The guys behind have decent lisp and hacking skills and zero to none product thinking. The project is around for a while but the complete lack of ability to think about users or from the users perpective makes it a dead end

This kind of articles / project is exactly why I love HN. I am not much a marketing person but have enough basics to understand that if something does not appeal to me, that's because I'm not the target and as a emacs fanboy this kind of tools 100% appeal to me.

Re: Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

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Post by tetris11 » Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 6:55 AM UTC

I would use it if it supported ublock origin