Ladybird Browser adopts Rust

Re:Ladybird Browser adopts Rust by tonyedgecombe on Monday February 23, 2026 @06:52AM (#47121119)

>But Rust doesn't have C++ interop at all?

It also doesn't have the disadvantages of Swift. Once the promise of Swift/C++ interop is gone there isn't enough left to recommend it.

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Re:Ladybird Browser adopts Rust by skavi on Monday February 23, 2026 @07:20AM (#47121366)

I’m curious what issues people were running into with Swift’s built in C++ interop? I haven’t had the chance to use it myself, but it seemed reasonable to me at a surface level.

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Re:Ladybird Browser adopts Rust by stratos123 on Monday February 23, 2026 @07:49AM (#47121653)

There's a list of unsolved problems in this Ladybird issue, now closed because they dropped Swift: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/issues/933

for example: "Swift fails to import clang modules with #include <math.h> with libstdc++-15 installed. Workaround: None (!!)"

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