[JanetToolsmith]

Have you been following Ladybird browser project?

From an early (2022) post:

https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform...

> Q: Why bother? You can’t make a new browser engine without billions of dollars and hundreds of staff.

> Sure you can. Don’t listen to armchair defeatists who never worked on a browser.

...fast-forward to this month:

https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/forking-ladybird-and-ste...

> Since then, SerenityOS has grown into a large OSS community with over one thousand contributors all over the world.

> Personally, for the past two years, I've been almost entirely focused on Ladybird

[bobajeff]

That doesn't really solve the problem. It will involve many many many many hours of development to get to the point where it's a viable alternative and if it ever does eventually reach that state, it will require lots of lots of hours of maintenance work.

[jauntywundrkind]

Yes. The world's most powerful incredible capable hyper-media is challenging to rebuild. Thats not a bug: it bespeaks the beneficent featurefulness.

[bobajeff]

That's only fine if you just care about the Web as a software platform. What about security vulnerabilities? What about having choices in browsers? What happens when Google decides they are finally ready to deprecate manifest v2?