Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests

72 points - today at 6:08 PM

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Alacart today at 7:41 PM
This makes a ton of sense to me with the huge corpus of web standards that exist. In theory we should be able to generate a browser from those specs, it just took a massive amount of effort before. Maybe if things like this get some traction, some of the human time spent implementing the spec could be spent on creating more/better specs, allowing for even better generation too.

Edit: replies are making good points about AI capabilities and where the effort really goes. Let’s just say that I meant this in an aspirational sense, rather than where the rubber actually meets the road today.

fouc today at 7:16 PM
I'm looking forward to the day when we have fully functioning web browsers that we have full programmatic control over in all aspects.

With luck all chromium/blink-based browsers will go the way of the dodo bird.

mircerlancerous today at 7:42 PM
This is a neat idea. It opens up a whole new way to make a web app into a native app, while also adding native features not available in web views
helpprotactiniu today at 7:50 PM
Is this named like Jev intentionally? Or is this just a new naming convention that I haven't been watching?
trencedamp today at 8:16 PM
But can it dance
cryptolobster today at 9:15 PM
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