Is there browsers built with .NET

[Xyncgas]

Chromium is built using c, would be nice to see .NET able to build a browser, it would be a living advertisement

[John0King]

@Xyncgas I'm afraid the answer is no, there are too many things that needed by a browser, for examples:

• encryption (need OpenSSL probably)
• OS layer method
• UI drawing(DirextX, OpenGL) Video Decoding, Image Decoding
• WebGL implementation,
• javascript engine.
• web assembly engine
• and so on

and each of them need p/invoke with C/C++ or use it's native stack, unless C# can direct reference the C/C++ header file, I think it will not for future neither.

[Xyncgas]

We can always start with abstract classes

[Clockwork-Muse]

.... what? That's not relevant

[Xyncgas]

You've made some pretty good points

[John0King]

A browse build using .net is possible but it's hard or harder because you need to create your own extern method to calling into those native, and C/C++ just got much easier , that's why i said "unless C# can direct reference the C/C++ header file, I think it will not for future neither" , and probably can in future because Source Generator.

[Clockwork-Muse]

Even C/C++ have "extern" calls, essentially (although depending on a few factors the compiler might handle some of it for you). That aside, pretty much all of the work of creating the C# external calls has already been done by the other libraries, so at that point the only thing required would be to stitch the C# libraries together.

[Clockwork-Muse]

To some limited extent, it looks like it has some form of limited browser already, at least on Windows.

That aside, I'm not sure that this would markedly increase the appeal of the language. Most - nearly all, besides a vanishingly small percentage - people that use a browser have no idea how to program. If they do, they are unlikely to change their perception of the language just based on a browser.

[rogihee]

I heard rumors of DuckDuckGo building a WPF based browser...

[Xyncgas]

oh really, is there links

[huoyaoyuan]

Browser is getting more and more complex these days. EdgeHTML, Trident(IE) and Presto(Opera) are discontinued. Firefox is not going well.

[Xyncgas]

I am more than optimistic, a browser built with .NET is a platform for starter, at least it's another application for people to use, that alone enables a lot due to the huge eco system.

Popularity alone shouldn't become a reason to stop something from emerging