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by mdaniel 488 days ago
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"