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Re:Pwning the Ladybird Browser by circl_lastname on Thursday May 01, 2025 @10:49AM (#43858407)
The browser was not started with the idea of taking over the main focus of development, it was just another part of an already pretty large hobby OS project
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Re:Pwning the Ladybird Browser by yencabulator on Thursday May 01, 2025 @11:43AM (#43859233)
Fine. With decades and decades of memory safety lessons in the books, it's hard to imagine how C++ was the language of choice when starting new operating system from scratch in 2018.
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Re:Pwning the Ladybird Browser by adamrt on Thursday May 01, 2025 @12:02PM (#43859543)
It really isn't that hard to imagine someone starting a fun hobby project in the language they enjoyed and were the most comfortable with.
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Re:Pwning the Ladybird Browser by yencabulator on Thursday May 01, 2025 @04:59PM (#43863293)
Dunno. It really is. Debugging memory corruption bugs in complex one-memory-space systems is very much not fun.
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Re:Pwning the Ladybird Browser by circl_lastname on Thursday May 01, 2025 @05:32PM (#43863600)
Nothing a little printf (or dbgln as it is known as in Serenity-Ladybird land) can't fix
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