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You really think Google has people running around with suitcases full of money, tempting devs to abandon their own browser engines in favour of chromium?

It might not, but so what? Don't we deserve options?

What would be the point of writing a whole new browser engine from scratch if you're just gonna fall back on a different one? Ladybird isn't ready and likely won't be for a long time. Treat this more like a "we're working on a new browser" type announcement, not a "We're launching a new browser today" announcement.

This sounds like a game changer. I wonder if they need to do a tonne of specific work per model? If this could be implemented in Ollama, I'd be over the moon.

It could be done in Rust, but I suspect a life long C++ expert would like to use the language they know the best, when writing something at this scale, rather than first learning a new language.

Because its fun, and because it might break the chromium monopoly we're currently living in, some day far in the future.

GUI libraries and a browser engines are vastly different things. Think of Ladybird as Blink, Webkit or Gecko.

Personally if I were to attempt a project at this scale, I'd do so using a language I'm proficient in. There might be other reasons, but Rust & C++ really are different beasts.

As I see it, Ladybird's value is showing that its still possible to write a modern browser engine without the resources of a major tech company like Apple or Google.

In the future it might be a real competitor to Chrome & Safari, but we're several years from that happening, if at all.

This looks like a genuinely exciting step for open source hardware. I just hope the momentum can hold, it would be interesting to see more open source components in the wild like this.

Shuttleworth and Canonical have done so much good for linux, but I cringe a bit when he misrepresents why people dislike Snaps. Also he totally glossed over the amazon lens and Unity situation, which I would have loved to hear about.

I think the quote from Linus is spot on.

"Linux fanboys have ruined it’s (Linux's) image. Most of them take pride in doing simple things in an over complicated manner and wonder why people won’t switch."

(Couldn't find the source, Linus might not have said this)

Apologies, I did mean "well sponsored" not well funded, my mistake :') You're doing awesome work and I'm really excited for you and the project! All the best :)

Have to admit the Firefox hate is mostly irrelevant. its from a place of disappointment with Mozilla more than hate really.

I agree that the amount of work and competition LadyBird is facing from Chrome alone is staggering, but at the same time, I'll always root for the little guy in tech, since imo thats where real innovation comes from.

Ladybird has garnered a level of mainstream attention that SerenityOS never really managed to.

The browser has the potential to impact many more people, and the project is well funded by large investors.

It makes sense that Andreas would shift his focus to LadyBird at this point.

While Safari is busy being Safari and Firefox is busy eating glue in the corner, I'd love to see LadyBird become a real contender in the browser market.

As a long time user of Ubuntu, Arch & Fedora I agree with all of your points. Although, in my personal experience, the only time I had trouble with Arch was when I tried messing with things I wasn't ready for.

If you're dead set on a rolling release distro and all you do is run Arch out of the box with the occasional AUR package mixed in, I'd say its stable enough for a working man.

Fedora has a special place in my heart though.