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Re:Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy by nurbel on Monday September 22, 2025 @11:18AM (#45334668)
why do you think the js interpreter is that special compared to all the rest? AFAIU, CSS is a much more complex beast, as the spec has not been written to reflect the way it could be implemented
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Re:Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy by zarzavat on Monday September 22, 2025 @04:27PM (#45339006)
Writing JS JITs is a specialized skill that requires a deep knowledge of compilers, JavaScript, and CPU architectures.

CSS is complicated but it's not as complex. It's just a matter of throwing enough sufficiently competent developers at the problem.

Ladybird doesn't even have a JIT right now. They used to, but it got taken out because as best as I can tell, nobody on the project knows how to write one.

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