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Giovanni Lostumbo
Aug 25, 2023, 5:15:50 PM8/25/23
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Hi, I saw this page on Plan 9 browsers
and was curious if there would be any benefit to porting Dillo browser? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillo
hiro
Aug 26, 2023, 7:54:45 AM8/26/23
to Giovanni Lostumbo, inferno-os
personally i like dillo.
and thus i would approve.
but it is not practical. inferno browsers are to be written in limbo.
porting dillo to limbo will not be easy, you'll be mostly rewriting
everything.
there are indeed some big similarities between the UI toolkits, but it
will still be a lot of work. it's not compatible.
also you're mentioning plan9 browsers. they are not written in limbo,
but mostly in C. we have no usable C++ environment so we mostly port
only C programs to plan9. if it requires gcc or clang, try to get rid
of that (making it truly platform independent in the sense that any
good C compiler can compile it).
maybe you can get inspired by dillo's architecture instead and make a
new program directly on plan9 in plan9-style C, which is generally
much more valuable than a naive port.
good luck
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and thus i would approve.
but it is not practical. inferno browsers are to be written in limbo.
porting dillo to limbo will not be easy, you'll be mostly rewriting
everything.
there are indeed some big similarities between the UI toolkits, but it
will still be a lot of work. it's not compatible.
also you're mentioning plan9 browsers. they are not written in limbo,
but mostly in C. we have no usable C++ environment so we mostly port
only C programs to plan9. if it requires gcc or clang, try to get rid
of that (making it truly platform independent in the sense that any
good C compiler can compile it).
maybe you can get inspired by dillo's architecture instead and make a
new program directly on plan9 in plan9-style C, which is generally
much more valuable than a naive port.
good luck
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