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Ladybird, the browser from SerentityOS, now has a non-profit behind it! The guy in the video is not Andreas, but Chris Wanstrath (former CEO from Github), and he's pumping some financial backing into this non-profit.

I for one am happy we're getting an alternative to the Chrome/Firefox duality we're stuck with.

https://ladybird.org/

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[–] quaff@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Neat. But it’s kind of concerning to see yet another OSS project hitch it’s community resourcing to Discord.

[–] SuperFola@programming.dev 8 points 4 months ago

Forums really have to get back in the world. I’m trying to ditch discord and move everyone to GitHub discussions for a project (have removed all invite links, just using it for me as a « webhook monitor »). Some people are still there when they have questions on how to use the project (because they prefer speaking in French rather than English).

[–] BB_C@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I for one am happy we’re getting an alternative to the Chrome/Firefox duality we’re stuck with.

Anyone serious about that would be sending their money towards Servo, which resumed active development since the start of 2023, and is making good progress every month.

I would say nothing but "Good Luck" to other from-scratch efforts, but It's hard not to see them as memes with small cultist followings living on hope and hype.

[–] oscar@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What makes Servo a better bet than Ladybird? Who backs it?

[–] BB_C@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

There is a YouTube video in Servo's homepage.
The first minutes of that video answer your question.

[–] sahuaro@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Remind me in two years when the first alpha is released

[–] monobot@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It actually exists and is being developed for the last three yeras. But you have to compile it by youself. Just a way to prevent people from having expectations, but a lot of modern sites are working in it. Some errors, a bit slow, but they have rendering engine, css parser, js implementation and are working closely with w3c - they have found some bugs in the standard since they are implementing it directly.

Great and useful project, I don't know if it will become real competition to firefox and chrome, but I guess it will get traction. A lot of people want new browser, some of them have money.

[–] sahuaro@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the reply, I understand it would be unwise to release a build at this point in time. I'll be waiting for it, meanwhile I'll keep using Firefox.

[–] Solumbran 2 points 4 months ago
[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

You might also want to check the latest Ladybird update: https://youtu.be/cbw0KrMGHvc

[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

Neat, but sad to see that it is permissively licensed.