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Falco: Tiny browser engine written from scratch in Rust

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Falco is a from-scratch browser engine written in Rust — no WebKit, Gecko, or Chromium under the hood. In ~36,000 lines, it parses HTML, applies CSS, runs a custom JavaScript VM with JIT support, and renders to either a PNG or a live interactive window. It's an early v0.1.0 release, with spec-compliant modules for HTML, DOM, CSS, and security already built but not yet wired into the render pipeline.

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