News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan. Parent comment

Re:iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan by pipeline_peak on Thursday January 01, 2026 @08:06PM (#46460201)
Ladybird has too much pride.

They are more concerned with making something from scratch than something that actually works.

Also they’re switching over to Swift which can only be worse for performance.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan by thingortwo on Friday January 02, 2026 @12:16AM (#46461661)
So what do you want another chromium based browser? The whole point of Ladybird is to kinda prove that a completely independent browser engine is feasible. Also, they are not doing everything from scratch for example it will use the same graphics library that chromium uses (Skia) and also now firefox. You should probably read the FAQ on their homepage:

https://ladybird.org/#:~:text=What%20does%20%22No%20code%20f...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan by pipeline_peak on Friday January 02, 2026 @01:20AM (#46461979)
> So what do you want another chromium based browser?

I want something free of Google code, which sounds like they aren’t doing if Skia is anyway involved.

Instead they’re wasting resources where it’s less needed. Like building a JS engine instead of starting off with something like SpiderMonkey, JSCore, or QuickJS.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan by Gabrys1 on Friday January 02, 2026 @05:11AM (#46463320)
Let them spend resources however they want. It's not like they are subsidized or anything
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan by pipeline_peak on Friday January 02, 2026 @06:06AM (#46463636)
>It's not like they are subsidized or anything

View sponsors https://ladybird.org/

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan by Gabrys1 on Saturday January 03, 2026 @02:27AM (#46473578)
Am I missing any govt org there?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan by pipeline_peak on Saturday January 03, 2026 @12:00PM (#46478902)
Subsidize doesn’t only mean government funded.
[ Parent | on HN ]