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It depends on how much of a browser you want to implement I guess. Comparing it with a compiler is a skewed comparison I think; compilers are built as part of many people's college/university education, but are only a small part of turning programming language into working software. Likewise, I'm sure most developers on here could feasibly write a web browser that can fetch websites and render the HTML.

But that's just one aspect, next you need to add support for CSS [1] and Javascript [2], each of which has had lifetimes of work invested in the standards and implementations.

So yeah, while it's doable to build a new browser, if you want to build a big one that has feature parity or is on-par with the existing browser landscape, you need a large team and many years of work. And that's just the practical aspect, the other one is, would a new browser actually be better? Could it compete with the existing market? So many players have just given up over time.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/css-2022/

[2] https://262.ecma-international.org/13.0/



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