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Kling's politics aside, he's also had a history of abandoning projects after hyping them up on social media and attracting contributors. Here is what happened t

Kling's politics aside, he's also had a history of abandoning projects after hyping them up on social media and attracting contributors. Here is what happened to SerenityOS and jakt, for example: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/graphs/commit-activity https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/graphs/commit-activit... https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt/graphs/commit-activity https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt/graphs/commit-activity If Cloudflare wants to defend the future of the web, maybe they could also throw a few dollars towards projects with better governance and aren't helmed by a BFDL with a spotty record and are written in a more future-proof language than C++ [0]. (For example, Servo.) [0]: In Kling's own words! https://web.archive.org/web/20250819053816/https://awesomekling.github.io/Memory-safety-for-SerenityOS/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250819053816/https://awesomekl...

leoc 1y ago
Isn't Ladybird (now) supposed to be moving to Swift, though? (I think that investment in Servo is also likely to be an excellent idea. Sponsoring Igalia's Servo work is an obvious starting place for any European institutions which are actually serious about "tech sovereignty", just to start with.)
mtlynch 1y ago
>Kling's politics aside, he's also had a history of abandoning projects after hyping them up on social media and attracting contributors. Here is what happened to SerenityOS and jakt, for example: He published free, open-source software. He's not obligated to work on a particular project forever. This is a particularly strange critique given that he shifted focus away from those projects to focus on other open-source work. If anyone else wants to take over the work Andreas was doing on old projects, all his code is there for them to use.
- pluto_modadic 1y ago
  It would be a bad look if he took the money and quit.
trflynn89 1y ago
This is a very strange take. SerenityOS is a hobby project, from which both Jakt and Ladybird were born. Jakt never took off even within the Serenity community. Ladybird is where most of us were spending our time, and its departure from Serenity was a pretty natural evolution. Ladybird is now a legally established nonprofit, with a board of directors and several full-time employees. Not a hobby.

leoc 1y ago

Isn't Ladybird (now) supposed to be moving to Swift, though? (I think that investment in Servo is also likely to be an excellent idea. Sponsoring Igalia's Servo work is an obvious starting place for any European institutions which are actually serious about "tech sovereignty", just to start with.)

mtlynch 1y ago

>Kling's politics aside, he's also had a history of abandoning projects after hyping them up on social media and attracting contributors. Here is what happened to SerenityOS and jakt, for example: He published free, open-source software. He's not obligated to work on a particular project forever. This is a particularly strange critique given that he shifted focus away from those projects to focus on other open-source work. If anyone else wants to take over the work Andreas was doing on old projects, all his code is there for them to use.

pluto_modadic 1y ago
It would be a bad look if he took the money and quit.

trflynn89 1y ago

This is a very strange take. SerenityOS is a hobby project, from which both Jakt and Ladybird were born. Jakt never took off even within the Serenity community. Ladybird is where most of us were spending our time, and its departure from Serenity was a pretty natural evolution. Ladybird is now a legally established nonprofit, with a board of directors and several full-time employees. Not a hobby.