Comment by jurschreuder
6 hours ago
Too bad LadyBird is being translated to LLM generated Rust.
It's nice that Rust is so beginner friendly but it would be nicer to have a pure C++ browser for the more experienced developers, to use as a basis for their projects like Chromium is used.
If LLMs allow them to speedrun to an alternative mainstream browser, then full speed ahead.
A third runner in this space would make the browser market a lot healthier than the current chrome/webkit and Firefox duopoly.
I’d rather have a good browser which took its time to get things right than a speed run one.
Too much software is written like that, and the result is that most things are shit. What are we in such a hurry for? To get more time to work more? Fucking chill. Do things slowly and right.
As a side thought, speed running seems like the wrong analogy for software. Speed runners in games are people who spend a ton of time doing the exact same steps over and over to find tiny optimisations and develop muscle memory to do something repeatable. They take the time to do it well. Being a good speed runner means embracing slow progress. It’s the antithesis of software, where rushing to get it out also means you barely look at it. You do it fast but seldom right.
What are your thoughts on the current code quality? Have you had a chance to review it?
are you willing to contribute time, money and code?
>chrome/webkit and Firefox duopoly
Blink (Chrome) is not WebKit. If anything, the duopoly is Blink and WebKit at places 1 and 2 respectively.
Firefox is at around 3% market share. There’s no “-poly” to Gecko at all.
Blink is derived from WebKit, so is in the same family like the other Blink/WebKit derived browsers. Fireox/Gecko is a different browser implementation.
Why would yet another C++ browser be better than one written in a different language (this time Rust, but Zig would be cool too)?
are you saying c++ can be used as a basis for other projects whereas rust cannot? ...why?
I don't really care for the language. But why is it following the GTK UI language ffs. Every gtk only gets worse.
> Ladybird has a new Linux frontend built on GTK4 and libadwaita, sitting alongside the existing Qt frontend
This is in addition to the already existing Qt frontend.