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Nyxt: The Emacs-like web browser

Nyxt is an unusual web browser that tries to answer the question, 'what if Emacs was a good web [...]

Background Nyxt was started in 2017 by John Mercouris, and is currently sponsored as a project by Atlas, which seems to be a two-person business focusing on Common Lisp development. In short, despite all of its merits, Mercouris felt that Emacs had too much technical debt to make a good basis for a web browser, and wanted to start with a clean slate. Users should not expect a bunch of new features or functionality in the first stable 4.0 release; the bulk of the work seems to be refactoring for Electron support, bug fixes, and user-interface improvements.

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