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The Chrome or Firefox Browser where literal billions of dollars and hundreds of developers work to ensure the worst fuck ups that follow from being written in C

• asddubs 4y ago
  and this is a hobby project that isn't ready for real world usage anyway, and they're planning to port it to a memory safe language long term. It's not really a fair comparison, and it's not like this is a project with commercial ambitions anyway.
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• jcelerier 4y ago
  How much is that due to clinging to old standard and legacy ways of doing things? If I look at my own code which tracks recent c++ standard quite aggressively, between c++11 and c++20 some parts of the code have enjoyed more than a 10x reduction due to the better abstractions, which definitely reduces the amount of bugs and development investment needed. I also don't remember the last time I had a memory leak/error that my IDE didn't show me inline to the code while I was typing thanks to clang-analyzer. Ladybird starts from these 2022 best practices - I'd wager it can reach its goals in muuch less time and engineering than it'd take chrome or FF with their (inescapable, no one wants to let good code go) legacy baggage, both social and technical
• BirAdam 4y ago
  While this is certainly true, two browsers being written by megacorps doesn't exactly make me eager to use the browsers. I would much much rather use software made by people who are passionate about the project than people who are working on something just clocking in and clocking out. For those who think Mozilla isn't about money: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation