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by autoexec 695 days ago
More than two there too. For example: WebKit, Blink, Gecko, LibWeb, Servo, Goanna, Presto, and Libwww or whatever Lynx is using these days.
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You’re right, I completely forgot WebKit. I would say there are currently 3 competitive engines, the rest are not very popular.
The first three cover basically 99% of browsers.
Yeah, options exist but it's not a very diverse ecosystem in practice. I'm excited and optimistic about ladybird for that reason. We need more options.
We've seen this week that the world does not want options. It wants a single point of failure in all infrastructure so that nobody is blamed for making the wrong choice.