Comment by jraph
5 days ago
> or Discord
Oh, no, why do alternative web browser engine devs love Discord so much? The Ladybird project also does this… that's certainly a barrier to entry for would be contributors attached to free software and software freedom… It's a shame, I suspect the intersection between people like this and people interested in alternative web browser engines is not small (comparatively speaking)…
Anyway, it's nice to see alternative web browser engines appearing like this. We need browser tech that does not rely on Big Ad funding. Even better if they cooperate on some common libraries like this.
Thanks for working on such things.
Web browser engines have always interested me, I might one day jump in.
Ironically the rationale for using Discord is that people are more likely to join it! It may be a case that this depend on the community one is targeting. Discord is popular among Rust developers, but perhaps less so among browser developers. If Zulip is more acceptable to you, then I also hang out in the Linebender Zulip [0]
Linebender [1] is an open source collective whose 2D renderer (Vello [2]) and text layout library (Parley [3]) we have adopted (and are actively contributing back to) as another part of our "make everything modular" strategy in Blitz.
[0]: https://xi.zulipchat.com/ [1]: https://github.com/linebender [2]: https://github.com/linebender/vello [3]: https://github.com/linebender/parley
> Ironically the rationale for using Discord is that people are more likely to join it!
Everybody says this, this ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy :-)
I guess it's difficult to avoid if the whole rust community is on it (which I didn't know, that's quite bad news for me xD)
> Linebender [1] is an open source collective whose 2D renderer (Vello [2]) and text layout library (Parley [3]) we have adopted (and are actively contributing back to) as another part of our "make everything modular" strategy in Blitz.
You keep on mentioning cool stuff you are working on!
I'll be sure to check these things out. I wouldn't mind installing Zulip (actually, I'm quite interested in trying it at some point) should I start working on these stuff one day.
Thanks again!
> I guess it's difficult to avoid if the whole rust community is on it (which I didn't know, that's quite bad news for me xD)
The actual compiler development is also on Zulip (https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/). And I still consider the /r/rust subreddit the real hub of the rust community in genreal. But I'm about 20 different Discord servers for various specific Rust projects (help!).
> I wouldn't mind installing Zulip (actually, I'm quite interested in trying it at some point) should I start working on these stuff one day.
A quick mention that you don't actually need to install Zulip: you can just use the web version, although you probably do want the app on mobile (the desktop version is just a wrapper of the website, but the mobile app is Flutter-based).
(also true of Discord, although it remains less free and open)