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Projects To Watch Out For: Ladybird Browser (ladybird.org)

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Finally, another web engine is being developed to compete with Chromium and Firefox (Gecko), and they're also working on a browser that will use it.

Here's the maintainer talking about the current state of the project, and a demo of the current functionality

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It wasn't right for people to bandwagon and harass the project, but that doesn't mean he was right for closing this PR in the way he did. Him closing this PR is what caused the project to be attacked, not part of the attacks.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Years later is ridiculous and unwarranted, it’s looking for someone to attack.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can you direct me to where he has apologized or reversed course at all in the years since?

Or do you think that we're just supposed to forgive over time without evidence that any improvement has occurred?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Technically, in a later PR they merged a more gender neutral language, but I don't think there was any official apology to the community.

I don't comment anything negative, so far as I remember, against Ladybird and decided not to look at the general direction of that project.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You mean when he said he had nothing against gender-neutral language but rather drive-by PRs and made the change?