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by nicce 258 days ago
Browsers have been historically the biggest and most difficult projects, so hard to say why it wouldn’t be. When they can start promising 20k bounties for segfaults, they are getting close.
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They are pretty far way from that. I still think it is one of the most exciting open source projects in recent years.
As someone who has first encounter with the ladybird - why is it exciting?

And how could ladybird attract so many sponsors for such a project? Why wouldn't they fund Firefox instead if they want to achieve some diversity in browser engine field?

I'm curious, not skeptical.

It's hard to fund Firefox when Mozilla spends as much money as they do on other things than Firefox.
> Browsers have been historically the biggest and most difficult projects

That's just a tired thrope that keeps being repeated by people who don't know any better.

Given how few generally usable browsers (3 with different skins) there are and how huge they are with basically required company backing for many employees... How is that a trope?
Ladybird is doing it with 8 devs, and it's working!

I tried it on my m4, it's surprisedly usable.