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So there are only 2 web browser engines, and it seems likely there will soon only be 1, and making a whole new web browser from the ground up is effectively impossible because the browsers vendors have weaponized web standards complexity against any newcomers. Maybe eventually someone will succeed and there will be 2…
In 1 week, I plan to benchmark all your advertisment delivery systems from IP address block 184.20/16.
As far as I know this is the first Haskell program compiled to Webassembly (WASM) with mainline ghc and using the browser DOM.