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html5ever
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servo / html5ever

html5ever

High-performance browser-grade HTML5 parser

12Distinct people
12Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.7KGitHub stars
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What it is

High-performance browser-grade HTML5 parser

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:04:58 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year12 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-01-20 07:40:43 UTC to 2026-01-26 21:32:51 UTC.

01232015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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I haven't really looked at the fastrender project to say how much of a browser it implements itself, but it does depend on at least one servo crate: cssparser (https://github.com/servo/rust-cssparser). Maybe there is a main servo crate as well out there, and fastrender doesn't depend on that crate, but at least in my mind fastrender depends on some servo browser functionality. EDIT: fastrender also includes the servo HTML parser: html5ever (https://github.com/servo/html5ever).
In When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype
I think it's fair enough to consider porting a subset of rewriting, in which case there are several successful experiments out there: - JustHTML [1], which in practice [2] is a port of html5ever [3] to Python. - justjshtml, which is a port of JustHTML to JavaScript :D [4]. - MiniJinja [5] was recently ported to Go [6]. All three projects have one thing in common: comprehensive test suites which were used to guardrail and guide AI. References: 1. https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/justhtml 2. https://friendlybit.com/python/writing-justhtml-with-coding-... 3. https://github.com/servo/html5ever 4. https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/porting-justhtml/ 5. https://github.com/mitsuhiko/minijinja 6. https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/14/minijinja-go-port/
In Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence

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