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Re:Ladybird Browser adopts Rust by rjh29 on Monday February 23, 2026 @05:47PM (#47130103)
The sense of NIH is from Serenity, and that was probably the reason for Jakt's existence too. Now it's spun off into its own project there is a lot more pragmatism.
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Re:Ladybird Browser adopts Rust by jacquesm on Monday February 23, 2026 @06:02PM (#47130291)
Well, here's to hoping because we really need a stand-in for FF. I realize the irony here in terms of that being the ultimate 'NIH' project but that one I can get behind because the browser landscape is much too fragile. Of course they might end up taking users away from FF rather than from Chrome, Edge or Safari.
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Re:Ladybird Browser adopts Rust by rjh29 on Monday February 23, 2026 @06:20PM (#47130480)
In case you didn't know they're using a lot of third-party libraries now for pretty major things: libcurl for http, Skia/Harfbuzz for rendering, libxml, OpenSSL, ffmpeg, etc:

https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/tree/8017f8a7ed3...

The core browser engine, JS/CSS/layout etc will always be original.

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