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The last time I checked the source code, it was filled with horrible unsafe C++. They also re-implement everything whether it is needed or not.

• dieortin 1mo ago
  Aren’t Chrome and Firefox also filled with “horrible unsafe C++”?
  • cyberax 1mo ago
    Yup. But they had thousands of engineers working on them for a decade.
    • unloader6118 1mo ago
      Doesnt that makes it even less consistent ?
      • cyberax 1mo ago
        Why? C++ is horrible, but when you have thousands of developers, you can make it work.
• adamrt 1mo ago
  > It was filled with horrible unsafe C++ Are you saying their code was horrible and unsafe, or just that its a byproduct of using C++. They've been rewriting parts in rust: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/blob/8f0a1b19114e781a56694ced3ea13a720139e146/Cargo.toml https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/blob/8f0a1b19114.... > They also re-implement everything whether it is needed or not. No they don't. SerenityOS did, and that was the goal of the project. But Ladybird has plenty of third party libraries.
  • cyberax 1mo ago
    > Are you saying their code was horrible and unsafe, or just that its a byproduct of using C++. Yes. It's both terrible because it's C++, and it's terrible because they're not following the modern C++ safe coding practices. > They've been rewriting parts in rust: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/blob/8f0a1b19114 https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/blob/8f0a1b19114.... And it's not going to amount to anything major. Rewriting in Rust properly requires architecting things from the beginning. > No they don't. For a long time, their policy had been "no third-party code". Eventually it became untenable, so they started using third-party libraries. But they still ended up reinventing the wheel at least several times.