Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3

cwbrowser A web browser with a rendering engine written completely from scratch in Zig, paired with Google’s V8 for JavaScript. Two years of solo work — extremely lightweight, and about 2× faster than Chrome in early testing. No Chromium, no WebKit, no Gecko. The HTML parser, CSS cascade, layout engine, and paint pipeline are all hand-written in Zig; only the JavaScript virtual machine is borrowed from Google’s V8. The result is a browser small enough to reason about end to end, and fast enough to beat the mainstream engines on the same hardware. 100 / 100 Acid3 conformance

test — a perfect

score ~2× faster than Google

Chrome in early

benchmarking From scratch parser, CSS, layout,

paint — all

hand-written in Zig 2 years of solo engineering

on the rendering

engine

Acid3 100/100 As of today, cwbrowser passes the Acid3 test with a perfect 100/100 — the same conformance bar the mainstream engines cleared, met by a from-scratch engine.

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