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Well, 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.

Before 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".

To 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.

To be fair. They have a really long way to go.