[peoplefromibiza]

My cousin worked at Toyota, he obviously can't build a Toyota.

Working on something is not the same thing as building the same thing from scratch on your own time and resources.

Of all the people who worked at Google, none of them rebuilt Google, right?

Also: Apple spent billions and employed several developers.

[Hikikomori]

So Andreas working on webkit means he has no browser engine experience? What counts as that kind of experience in your book?

[peoplefromibiza]

> So Andreas working on webkit means he has no browser engine experience?

Who said "no experience"? (except you, of course)

I've said, an I repeat myself so maybe this time it'll work, Andreas had no money whatsoever, while Servo was developed inside Mozilla that poured millions of dollars on it and created a dedicated team to build it.

It makes all the difference in the World, the actual experience on building a web browser is irrelevant, given the initial disparity of time, money and resources available.

It makes all the difference between a random guy building a working twitter clone and Meta building a working twitter clone.

The first one is an amazing accomplishment, the second one is a mehhh at best.

Ladybird is a miracle compared to Servo.

[Hikikomori]

Ok? I dont see why thats relevant to what I said and what you initially responded to.

[peoplefromibiza]

You replied to:

it has been underway for much longer and was built with people with actual browser engine experience

The key point is that Ladybird was developed by one person (not people) with some browser engine experience over a realtively short period, using only personal resources. While Andreas Kling worked on WebKit, his experience wasn't at the level of building an entire engine, which is evident from his videos. Experience alone isn't enough; he learned much of what he needed while developing Ladybird. While Andreas Kling is talented, many other developers on his team were equally skilled and yet he's the only WebKit developer I am aware of who built a browser on his own.

A task that not long ago was considered too hard to tackle, he proved it can be done even by people with relatively modest experience on building a browser.

It should be highlighted that Andreas main skills are his tremendous communication skills and the way he builds a mental model of the problem he's trying to solve, not his past WebKit experience (he wrote an entire OS, before building a browser for the OS he built, as a side project)