[milansuk]

Sure developers have a hard time handling all that HTML, CSS, Javascript and connections(DOM, etc.) between them, but I see a much bigger problem in browsers. There are actually only a few browsers and most of them are based on chromium(or Webkit). Why? Because web standards are huge!

Their complexity is so big, that even great programmers have a hard time creating browsers from scratch. The latest example of this is probably Ladybird[0]. Andreas Kling and others have worked on it for years("Just under 1000 days for a bunch of hackers to build a new JavaScript engine"[1]) and they know it will require way more time to just catch up the Chrome[2].

A year ago I started to build SkyAlt[3], which doesn't have anything to do with the web. It's not just a browser, but also an IDE where you can create apps with few lines of code or just drag and drop stuff on canvas. It's written in C and it's only 25K LOC. Compiling takes a few seconds and binary is under 1MB. There are tons of features that need to be built, but I like its simplicity(relative to the web).

[0] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Ladybird

[1] https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1596783757125898243

[2] https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1595387284035145729

[3] https://github.com/MilanSuk/SkyAlt

[wildrhythms]

Well said. I've been following Andreas building Ladybird, and it has been an eye-opener to see the complexity of what is effectively an operating system built on another operating system.