@Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months agoAnnouncing the Ladybird Browser Initiativeladybird.orgexternal-linkmessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up1462arrow-down129
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minus-square@asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish30•10 months ago C++ If they’re starting a browser from scratch, why would they not have chosen Rust? Seems very short sighted to not have learned from Firefox.
minus-squareProdigalFroglinkfedilinkEnglish43•10 months agoThey used c++ initially since it was spawned from SerenityOS, which was designed to be a mashup of win2000 and unix. now that Ladybird is its own project, it’s not constrained to that goal, and they have said they will incorporate modern languages.
minus-square@maxinstuff@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish9•10 months agoMust be planning on actually shipping something /s
minus-square@asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•10 months agoShip what, segfaults / invalid memory access? Lol
If they’re starting a browser from scratch, why would they not have chosen Rust? Seems very short sighted to not have learned from Firefox.
They used c++ initially since it was spawned from SerenityOS, which was designed to be a mashup of win2000 and unix.
now that Ladybird is its own project, it’s not constrained to that goal, and they have said they will incorporate modern languages.
Glad to hear that!
Must be planning on actually shipping something
/s
Ship what, segfaults / invalid memory access? Lol
CVEs lol