I also tried Nyxt, but I never stuck with it. I believe there are different UI contexts depending on the goal. For example, browsing the web is a different task and experience than editing text. That's why it comes naturally to me to use a mouse- and keyboard-driven application, Firefox in my case, for browsing and Emacs for anything text-related.

In other words, using the purely text-driven Emacs interface to browse multimedia web pages does not feel natural to me.

Can you elaborate? In what ways have they failed their users?

I think there's a lack of understanding. If Nyxt is trying to be the emacs of web browsers, it's very much removed from the "product mindset", it's more about somehow coherent capabilities than a product with market and users. Kinda like linux.

This kind of articles / project is exactly why I love HN. I am not much a marketing person but have enough basics to understand that if something does not appeal to me, that's because I'm not the target and as a emacs fanboy this kind of tools 100% appeal to me.

These are not the target for Nyxt. Think about Emacs. Or, for vi/nvi/vim people, Luakit/Vimb.

Note that while it suffered from featuritis at some point, the main guy reverted some of it after the last other contributor left: https://old.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1m3kzv8/nyxt_400_prer...

Personally, I'll use and donate to it once it can run uBlock, not before.

i agree but it hasnt stopped emacs or linux for that matter

That’s a good question to ask.

In terms of the browser itself, it’s not niche browser engine. The engine is Chromium (via Electron) by default, though WebKit is also supported as a compile time option.

So that should bring the same safeguards in terms of sandboxing from drive-by attacks.

Then risk here is code that has execution permissions outside of that sandbox. But here, that’s no different to running any kind of untrusted code (eg shell script, ELF, etc) on your local machine.

Exactly my thought when I read the post. While I love the hackability of Emacs, it’s one thing if it’s just your editor with a security hole and another thing entirely if you’re downloading and interpreting pages (and JavaScript?) from the Internet cesspool with a browser with a security hole.

Nzxt.

> So now we have Next, Nuxt, and Nyxt. What’s noxt?

Well there's still two more vowels[1], so at a guess ... Naxt and Nixt?

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[1] I've never understood why 'Y' is not a vowel.

And umatrix