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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's possible. But it's a huge undertaking. If you just wanted to fully understand all of the specifications for HTTP, JavaScript and CSS, it'd take you days before having written a single line of code.

Then you need to write all that in a performant way.

Then you need to keep up with all the new features.

Then you need to keep up with all the new security threats.

Browsers nowadays are practically little operating systems. So the question is not that far off from asking what prevents you from writing an alternative to Windows.

You can. But it'll cost millions, or maybe billions, to build something good.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Reject modernity, embrace Gopher.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Or, if you'd prefer, here's a video overview

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I mean, we did it with Linux and it didn't cost billions...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Just the combined efforts of thousands of people. Mostly in their spare time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you count the hours spent and developer pay, I'm sure it would. It's just all donated by the contributors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Many developers get paid, of course.