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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] 58 points 2 months ago (34 children)

It's nice and all but usage of Swift is kind of not great.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (32 children)

Why is Swift bad?

Also, I noticed the project has taken donations from mostly non-foss companies. Let's hope they stand by their principles

[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (13 children)

Shopify (i.e. Shittify) being their top donor already has me looking sideways at this project. They'll invest in anything they think they can get an edge with and if something starts to happen they'll fuck it up and wallstreet-ify it as fast as possible if they can.

Their (Shopify's) guru founder Tobi made a huge NFT play that went absolutely nowhere while I still worked there. They spent a lot of time and money on it, right before they laid several thousand people off.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

While I agree shopify has a kind of "mierda touch", I still see it as if it goes sideways with them someone will just fork the code.