Three months after a frustrated blog post about corporate control of the internet, the author shares progress on Gosub, an open-source browser engine written in Rust. A small community has formed around the project, producing a functional HTML5 parser, a near-complete CSS3 parser, and early concepts for a JavaScript engine. The team lacks a formal roadmap and professional structure, but is growing. Near-term goals include creating a roadmap, recruiting contributors, and continued research. The project is driven by frustration with ad-blocker blocking, Cloudflare gatekeeping, and the erosion of a free internet.
Sort: