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Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative (ladybird.org)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] asdfasdfasdf 38 points 4 months ago (4 children)

C++

If they're starting a browser from scratch, why would they not have chosen Rust? Seems very short sighted to not have learned from Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They used c++ initially since it was spawned from SerenityOS, which was designed to be a mashup of win2000 and unix.

now that Ladybird is its own project, it's not constrained to that goal, and they have said they will incorporate modern languages.

[–] asdfasdfasdf 11 points 4 months ago

Glad to hear that!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

@[email protected] There's Servo ( @[email protected] ), it's a browser engine written in rust

@[email protected]

[–] asdfasdfasdf 9 points 4 months ago

Yes, that's what I'm referring to. They could build on that, or they could write something their own in Rust. But I'd think building on Servo would be fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I know about servo. It was pretty much a dead project until they joined the Linux fondation last year and started getting some sponsorship. Since then, they being doing pretty good on there own with personal donations rising by around 20% each month, reaching more than 2000$ monthly. Wish them all the best!

[–] maxinstuff 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Must be planning on actually shipping something

/s

[–] asdfasdfasdf 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ship what, segfaults / invalid memory access? Lol

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

CVEs lol