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One year of sponsored Servo development

358 points · 144 comments · AshleysBrain

  1. QwenGlazer9000 · · 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 · · 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 · · 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:&#x2F;&#x2F;ladybird.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;adopting-rust&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ladybird.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;adopting-rust&#x2F;

        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?

        1. surajrmal · · focus · HN ↗
          I&#x27;m curious why you care about whether or not they spent time and effort to write those components themselves. Isn&#x27;t that their choice as the authors? How does it materially affect you or the product experience? From my vantage point, I love the idea of having even more options as it will create competition, making all sides better for it. Having a singular dominant player in any space (whether it&#x27;s a browser, kernel, or library) is something we should try to avoid whenever possible.
          1. bryanlarsen · · focus · HN ↗
            Spreading oneself too thin makes you much less likely to succeed.
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