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Re:This Month in Ladybird – October 2025 by throwaway34564 on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @08:05AM (#45810561)
If they'd just have used an Electron stack from the get-go, it would have been cross platform already
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Re:This Month in Ladybird – October 2025 by nechuchelo on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @08:15AM (#45810670)
If they were happy with using an existing browser engine, they wouldn't be writing one from scratch
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Re:This Month in Ladybird – October 2025 by throwaway34564 on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @09:43AM (#45811574)
I agree, they can write it from scratch and compile to web-assembly. That way they can use Electron for the UI layer. </s> (apparently needed)
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Re:This Month in Ladybird – October 2025 by thiht on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @11:44AM (#45813000)
That makes no sense, they're writing a browser engine...
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