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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Projects To Watch Out For: Ladybird Browser (ladybird.org)

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Finally, another web engine is being developed to compete with Chromium and Firefox (Gecko), and they're also working on a browser that will use it.

Here's the maintainer talking about the current state of the project, and a demo of the current functionality

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

While Rust would probably have been a good choice for implementing a new browser, I don't think Swift deserves the criticism it's getting in this thread:

Swift was created by the same person who created Rust, and has many of the same nice traits
Swift is a modern language that is easy for plenty of developers to pick up; I'd place it in the same family as Rust and Kotlin
Swift grants access to a large pool of native iOS/Mac developers