Show HN: A tiny web browser implementation with V8 JavaScript engine and Rust

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Wow, very neat! I'm happy to see you implemented it as a TUI.

While I know this isn't the focus of this project, I think we need a TUI browser that can run the modern web and there just doesn't seem to be anything out there, other than brow.sh, but the author hasn't had time to push that over the finish line.

How does this classify as a TUI?

Judging by the screenshot, it is quite literally a text-based (or terminal) user interface.

Ah okay, different TUI than googling showed me

For sites which offer noJS fallback, Links/Links2 is quite tolerable, and for those not afraid of a learning curve, w3m is also pretty good. I also use Lynx regularly, and it still works.

Lovely! Really excited to see any progress in this space. I found long ago that I thrive most in a terminal-only environment when I'm trying to maintain focus. The browser is my primary reason for running a graphical environment (and obviously also the primary source of distraction), and it feels liberating to imagine even a basic js-capable TUI browser.

I wonder too if work in this space would reap rewards for vision-impaired accessibility on sites not designed for it. Does anyone know if that's the case?

Love TUI browsers, excited to try a new one! How's memory footprint?

Are there any JavaScript engines in Rust?

https://github.com/boa-dev/boa

love chrome

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