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by anotherhue 489 days ago
If you're reading this and having the standard rage reaction to Baker's salary and the squandering of Firefox, instead consider donating directly to Ladybird. The community can solve for this.

https://donorbox.org/ladybird

https://ladybird.org/

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What exactly would one get as return on that investment, given <https://ladybird.org/#faq>:

- We are targeting Summer 2026 for a first Alpha version on Linux and macOS

- We don't have anyone actively working on Windows support, and there are considerable changes required to make it work well outside a Unix-like environment

- We don't have anyone actively working on an Android or iOS port

- now we have almost half a million lines of modern C++ to maintain

I wish them luck, but yikes what a very, very deep hole they are trying to dig themselves out of just to reach alpha that thumbs its nose at Windows and the entire mobile market

The hubris of writing a web browser in C++ after looking at Chromium and thinking, "pffft, those morons clearly don't know how to avoid UAF bugs"