[HN Gopher] WWWBrowser - a Haskell web browser (2019)
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       WWWBrowser - a Haskell web browser (2019)
        
       Author : chpatrick
       Score  : 74 points
       Date   : 2021-11-26 14:11 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (cth.altocumulus.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (cth.altocumulus.org)
        
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       | ysangkok wrote:
       | What are the weaknesses of Fudgets compared to real FRP as
       | imagined by Elliott or FRP as seen in Elm or Reflex?
        
       | PaulDavisThe1st wrote:
       | ... somewhere in 2031 on HN ...
       | 
       |  _webbr - a Rust web browser (2022)_
        
       | forgotmypw17 wrote:
       | Any chance of a copy of it, for testing my website with?
        
         | hcs wrote:
         | The source code from 1995 is in here (wwwbrowser.tar.gz):
         | https://web.archive.org/web/19980524232845/http://www.cs.cha...
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         | There were updates in 1997 and 1998 but I haven't been able to
         | find newer source.
         | 
         | I haven't tried building it myself. You'll need HBC and the
         | Fudgets libs to build it, this might be the best source for
         | those:
         | http://web.archive.org/web/20090213111319/http://www.cs.chal...
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         | Edit:
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         | There are newer versions of Fudgets [1] that build with GHC,
         | and some newer versions of InternetLib [2] (support library,
         | but not the browser) including GHC binaries for Linux [3]
         | (though quite old now).
         | 
         | [1] http://www.altocumulus.org/Fudgets/dist.html
         | 
         | [2]
         | http://www.altocumulus.org/~hallgren/untested/Source_code/ol...
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         | [3]
         | http://www.altocumulus.org/~hallgren/untested/for_Linux/old/
        
       | chpatrick wrote:
       | > It supports Fupplets, which are applets written in Haskell.
       | 
       | Amazingly this browser is about the same age as Netscape.
        
         | caslon wrote:
         | Is it really amazing? Haskell's been around for a while and has
         | had an interpreter on all sorts of old computing platforms.
         | Hugs worked on Plan 9, of all platforms.
         | 
         | Haskell's pretty antiquated and the community's pretty dead
         | compared to what it once was, if not in sheer volume of people
         | then in the amount of competent ones.
        
           | whateveracct wrote:
           | > Haskell's pretty antiquated and the community's pretty dead
           | compared to what it once was, if not in sheer volume of
           | people then in the amount of competent ones.
           | 
           | citation needed lol
        
           | bachmeier wrote:
           | Downvoted for "Haskell's pretty antiquated" with nothing to
           | support your statement. It reads like you're trolling, and
           | it's hard to come up with a positive interpretation of your
           | comment.
        
       | sigzero wrote:
       | The alternate future where Haskell took off instead of
       | JavaScript.
        
         | nix23 wrote:
         | Yeah thanks, now you made me sad.
        
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