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As other commenters mentioned, the jakt language is self hosted as of a few months ago. If you look at the projects README and source code, you can see that it's currently transpiling to C++. It's also only been around since May of this year.

LibWeb very much exists, and is not a fork of anything. It lives in the SerenityOS project and is written entirely green field C++.



So in the far future, jakt will compile in machine code with the rust-written rust compiler (or a bootstrap jakt-written jakt compiler) and will generate native code for a libWeb and libJS that are able to browse youtube and disney+, that with a SDK not pulling a grotesquely and absurdely complex and massive c++ compiler.

I think I got the picture now. Thx.




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