Comment by stephc_int13
2 years ago
I don't know. This is speculation on my side.
But they recently announced funding as a non-profit, as a few days later, they switch to Swift.
Following the money is a good way to explain seemingly irrational decisions, at least as a first order approximation.
Moving to a non profit, forking from SerenityOS and (as a result of that) no longer being tied to C++ all happened at the same time.
It's possible Apple could be paying them to develop a rival browser but... why?