Comment screw Firefox, Chrome and Edge (Score 1) 318
We need a browser written in a "safe" language, or at least a language with builtin automatic memory management. Not C++. I'm tired of browsers leaking memory and needing to be updated every other week to patch yet another set of (mostly memory-corruption) vulnerabilities that have been lurking for a long time but only recently disclosed.
Servo is supposed to be that, but I'm not convinced (and it's not finished).
HotJava (anyone remember?) was supposed to be that. It was a good idea, but maybe Java itself wasn't ready yet because HotJava segfaulted more often than Netscape Navigator, the mainstream browser at the time. I gave up on it and I guess so did everybody else. The web has changed so much since 1996 that if you were writing a browser in Java, you might be better starting from scratch than forking HotJava.
Does anyone know anything about Lobo?