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Have you been following Ladybird browser project? From an early (2022) post: https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform-browser-project/ htt

Have you been following Ladybird browser project? From an early (2022) post: https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform-browser-project/ https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform... > Q: Why bother? You can’t make a new browser engine without billions of dollars and hundreds of staff. > Sure you can. Don’t listen to armchair defeatists who never worked on a browser. ...fast-forward to this month: https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/forking-ladybird-and-stepping-down-serenityos https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/forking-ladybird-and-ste... > Since then, SerenityOS has grown into a large OSS community with over one thousand contributors all over the world. > Personally, for the past two years, I've been almost entirely focused on Ladybird

bobajeff 2y ago
That doesn't really solve the problem. It will involve many many many many hours of development to get to the point where it's a viable alternative and if it ever does eventually reach that state, it will require lots of lots of hours of maintenance work.
- jauntywundrkind 2y ago
  Yes. The world's most powerful incredible capable hyper-media is challenging to rebuild. Thats not a bug: it bespeaks the beneficent featurefulness.
  - bobajeff 2y ago
    That's only fine if you just care about the Web as a software platform. What about security vulnerabilities? What about having choices in browsers? What happens when Google decides they are finally ready to deprecate manifest v2?