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One year of sponsored Servo development

358 points · 144 comments · AshleysBrain

QwenGlazer9000 · 1789648768 · focus · HN ↗
I'm glad we have an alternative to ladybird, since I haven't been a fan of the direction of the project for a bit.
1. edgyquant · 1789650017 · focus · HN ↗
  Would also be interested to hear why. Personally I used to watch serenityOS and only recently relooked into it to see the main guy was no longer leading it but working on ladybird full time
  1. bryanlarsen · 1789651269 · focus · HN ↗
    They announced they are doing an AI assisted rewrite of parts of their code into Rust. That would alienate some.
    <a href="https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/" rel="nofollow">https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/
    Myself, my annoyance with Ladybird is that restarted everything from scratch. There are components of servo that are really good and basically complete. Why not use those components and concentrate on the components where you have design conflicts with Servo?
    cogman10 · 1789653444 · focus · HN ↗
    Didn't they start with like C++, then zig, and now rust.
    To me it's just not serious. They also had articles of "why we are doing zig and not rust".
    It's an ambitious project, but I can't take it seriously when the tech stack is in constant flux.
    kouosi · 1789654345 · focus · HN ↗
    I think they used swift instead of zig because Kling was using mac for development

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