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by jraph 870 days ago
WebKit is established and controlled by the richest company of the world. Most websites make sure they work on it because hardware (exclusively) running it are widespread. Why should someone interested in new players care? Anyone knowing about Servo and Ladybird has most likely heard of it anyway.

(agreed, it is a credible alternative to Blink's dominance)
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DiggyJohnson 870 days ago
Because it can be used to do cool things, has an interesting development history, and most importantly:

> it is a credible alternative to Blink's dominance

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vmfunction 864 days ago
For me it is like:

WebKit -> Chrome

Bun -> Node/Deno

It is good to have competitions in Ecmascript landscape, even though it is currently a duopoly, but with introduction of AWS LLRT, and QuickJS, maybe small player can even have a say so in this. It would be good the big corp comply to the Ecmascript and Web API standard.

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