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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:15:38 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] What are you using Plan 9 for?
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On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 03:22:24PM +0100, Steve Simon wrote:
>
> The bigger problem today is the lack of a modern web browser.
>

FWIW, there is a javascript engine in C:

http://duktape.org/

and a browser if I'm not mistaken written in C (there is the choice
between are several distinct graphical libraries to link against, but
one can also directly write to a framebuffer or to a dumb window):

http://www.netsurf-browser.org/

(netsurf uses duktape) that could be a starting point for someone with
time to tackle the task.

I sometime consider it but I'm almost at the point of trashing (too many
things to do and finally spending most time to switch from one task to
the other, trying the most part of the slot to restore the context---where
was I, what had to be done and how?---, without not much being done
eventually...)

YMMV,
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