Re:Ladybird Browser adopts Rust
by jacquesm on Monday February 23, 2026 @06:02PM
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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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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.