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It really goes to show what a dedicated team can accomplish. Before Ladybird it was taken for granted that building an entirely new browser engine would take de
by GalaxyNova 1y ago
It really goes to show what a dedicated team can accomplish. Before Ladybird it was taken for granted that building an entirely new browser engine would take decades and people would laugh at you for even bringing it up.
- typpilol 1y agoTo be fair. They have a really long way to go.
- serial_dev 1y agoWell, it is going to take decades… It’s a valuable, ambitious project, but it is going to take a while before it can be used for anything real.
- badsectoracula 1y agoBefore Ladybird every time someone brought up about making a new web engine, pretty much every top voted comment here on HN was about how that was impossible to do, often bringing up how even a giant like Microsoft had to abandon their engine. At least now the cynical pessimistic takes changed from "impossible, not even MS with their giant teams can do it" to "it may take decades for this small team to do it".
- Someone 1y agoTo be fair, when they started, they intended to write a browser from the bottom up, including such things as image and video decoders, networking, etc. They changed course.