On 2010-10-09, at 12:45 PM, Dirk Pranke wrote: > [...] it's > unclear if one can reasonably hope to see a web browser written from > scratch in a new language to ever hope to render the majority of the > current web correctly; the effort may simply be too large. I was not > aware of Lobo; it looks interesting but currently idle, and is a fine > example of this problem. > > I continue to hope, but I may be unreasonable :)
The Mozilla Foundation is creating the Rust language explicitly to have an alternative to C++ for building a web browser, so it may not be that unreasonable, in the medium term. Progress on Google's Go language as an alternative to C, and the addition of garbage collection to Objective-C, show there is a wide-spread need for alternatives to C/C++ among the folks who create browsers. Rust: http://github.com/graydon/rust/wiki/Project-FAQ --Dethe http://livingcode.org/ _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
