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C itself wasn't the problem but rather learning to use Xlib and Cairo was very difficult. A massive amount of code that I found on the internet was un-compilable. The documentation is extremely old and I was relying a lot on taking already existing code and playing around with it until I learn the intricacies.

I just quickly looked at it. It seems to be nice by a quick glance. I will look at it in depth. Thank you for your suggestion :)

Intriguing yet terrifying at the same time.

Mind Uploading - AKA Whole Brain Emulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading

What has happened, you cannot influence. But you can certainly influence what's happening and what's going to happen.

The outcome of most actions in life is a coin toss. Hard work, dedication, and charisma can certainly affect the odds but at the end of the day it's a coin toss.

You will win some of them and you will lose some of them.

I've been browsing the site a little bit and I've got a question. Who is this or what is this for? I couldn't think of a personal use case for it so I'm asking out of curiosity.

This looks pretty cool! It feels like a new take on the idea of mailing lists. One suggestion that came to my mind, is to have the ability for viewers to subscribe to conversations. It could be either through Email notifications or RSS.

Wow, this is amazing. I'm shocked I didn't know of this earlier.

So I tried this on my phone (Android - Bromite browser) and it's not working. But from the comments, I'm guessing that multiple items are copied to the clipboard and one of them is the author's twitter link? :D

I'll try this on my PC to see what the actual trick is. But also looks like that some people have reported that it doesn't work on Firefox.

edit: Typo

This is so awesome! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for the advice and the good wishes :)

I evaluated a lot of languages before settling down on C. I have 2 main reasons why I chose C. One is that I wanted to pay homage to many great programmers who wrote industry-pushing software in C. The other reason was that I wanted to start from 'scratch' and use as few pre-made libraries as possible. I think there is a lot of fun in starting a project like this from 0 and figuring out everything on the go :D

Thanks +1 I did't know Google Groups were still around!

That's a good insight! I'll definitely try to look for them on Github and similar platforms. Thanks!

The project is still very early on in development so we haven't decided how to handle extensions/add-ons. But it would definitely be neat and unique if the browser extensions are also written in C. But the idea behind the browser is to create an unbloated, fast, and responsive browser that is also easy to use.

Yeah the browser is open source, but the project is very early in development. After the project has a stable basis, we will fully embrace the FOSS mindset and make contributions open.

I'll look into Xt and Xaw. Thanks

This looks promising. I'll look into it. Thanks +1

This looks great! Thanks a lot!

The high level GUI toolkits that I looked at (GTK+ and Qt) were very bloated with features that would not come in handy for my use case, and frankly, they were difficult to use. Doing simple tasks in Xlib was simpler. But I did quickly notice a lot of limitations with Xlib such as no transparent pixels which means no Anti aliasing and the lack of ability to load in True type and Open type fonts. I did come across the Xrender library (also by XOrg) but couldn't find any documentation for it. Also doesn't really help that pretty much any documentation for Xlib is dozens of years old. Which (C) GUI libraries do you have in mind?

It's a shame that they are on Slack, but thanks I will check them out!

The aim of the project is to create a useful, minimal, and fast web browser. But we all are learning as we are developing it :D