# Blitz

14 Hacker News commenters recommended Blitz and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 10 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Free Rust browser engine for apps, valued for its modular design and steady progress, though critics warn it lacks JavaScript and is not ready for building apps.

## Why people recommend it

- Modular design for app development (3 comments): "I'm building a web engine specifically targeting application development use cases here" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46087090)) "Our whole blitz project is designed to be modular exactly for that use-case." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46167013)) "the modular browser approach pioneered by Blitz is also promising" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48522062))
- Standard HTML/CSS with native Rust API (2 comments): "It's a new custom browser engine supporting standard HTML/CSS with a native Rust API" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48629718)) "that supports features like Flexbox, CSS Grid, CSS variables, media queries, etc" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826747))
- Used in real projects and prototypes (3 comments): "Thanks for all this! I used Blitz a while ago for a product research spike" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49362951)) "a big blocker for me was video in blitz but i solved it myself" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319464)) "brought it all together and rendered pages via" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47539708))
- Active development and promising progress (5 comments): "I’ve been waiting for something like this to exist for a very long time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480311)) "Come contribute, we're already much further along" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46166880)) "blitz seems to be coming along nicely" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630331))

## What people warn about

- No JavaScript execution yet (2 comments): "has layout and rendering but does not have JS execution" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47861635)) "and Blitz [1] (the latter of which is no-JS like Dillo)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913726))
- Not yet recommended for building apps (2 comments): "we would not yet recommend building apps with it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218798)) "Of course blitz doesn't expose a FFI either" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168806))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Servo browser engine](https://hackerapproved.com/p/servo.md): 81 recommend
- [WebKit](https://hackerapproved.com/p/webkit.md): 33 recommend
- [WebView2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/webview2.md): 7 recommend
- [Sciter](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sciter.md): 6 recommend
- [WKWebView](https://hackerapproved.com/p/wkwebview.md): 6 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Blitz", https://hackerapproved.com/p/blitz/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).