no, that is exactly the issue. The fact that Andreas Kling is willing to interact with lunduke, dhh, and similar people on a semi-regular basis is not a great look.
Do you think any of these qualify as anything more than hobby projects?
I’m not sure I’d consider a single-threaded browser application to be relevant in 2026. IE7 still technically exists too, and if you really wanted to you could run Netscape Navigator, but I wouldn’t count them among functional current browsers.
hey, links2 is still alive and well, and there are now terminal browsers like chawan that can render images mostly correctly. There’s also a few that are actually either chromium or gecko. avoid those.
There are 3 browsers. Everything else is just a reskin.
This is Lynx erasure.
then what’s konqueror?
And only 2 main lineages left, Chromium and WebKit are both KHTML descendants
You could argue Goanna is its own thing by now. It was forked from Gecko, but Blink/Chromium was initially forked from WebKit.
There’s also Servo and LibWeb, but I don’t think either is really usable yet.
What about LadyBirdEdit: that’s LibWeb
vibecoded fashtech, but servo does exist
I won’t entirely disagree with the vibecode part, but I don’t think Lunduke is a particularly trustworthy source.
no, that is exactly the issue. The fact that Andreas Kling is willing to interact with lunduke, dhh, and similar people on a semi-regular basis is not a great look.
e: more people you really don’t want to associate with
Do you think any of these qualify as anything more than hobby projects?
I’m not sure I’d consider a single-threaded browser application to be relevant in 2026. IE7 still technically exists too, and if you really wanted to you could run Netscape Navigator, but I wouldn’t count them among functional current browsers.
There’s also QtWebEngine, WebKitGTK+ and all the tui browsers.
You meant Konqueror, the other WebKit browser
which is Chromium
which is WebKit
…yeah, and I’m sure someone out there still has a working telegraph, but I wouldn’t list it as part of telecommunications infrastructure.
hey, links2 is still alive and well, and there are now terminal browsers like chawan that can render images mostly correctly. There’s also a few that are actually either chromium or gecko. avoid those.
Oh good, so they’re kind of on the level of Netscape Navigator.
QtWebEngine is just Chromium.
But yes, Links and Lynx are real.