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Let's build another web browser based on Servo!

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just can't imagine how much of a work writing a freaking web engine from scratch is. Massive respect to all the devs working on Servo. Hope it release pretty soon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Andreas Kling wrote a lot of Ladybird himself. It's not finished yet, and it's turned into a big community project with full time employees now, but with some experience building browsers, the modern spec evidently makes it quite a reasonable task to build a web engine. There are a lot of IDL files and whatnot to parse and process documents and the rendering algorithms are almost all laid out in the spec these days.

I tried Servo last month and I must say that after what I've seen Ladybird do, I was kind of disappointed. I don't think release is very close based on the problems I've encountered.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yeah but ladybird devs care more about enforcing male centric pronouns than spending all of like 5 minutes changing him to they after many people requested it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't really see what that has to do with the feasibility of writing a new browser engine or the development status of either browser engine, but yeah, it was pretty silly of him to get dragged into an argument over that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I don't see how insisting on having male pronouns has to do with the feasibility of a browser engine or the development status of it either, but here we are.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Because they wasted 5 people's time on it instead of pulling in the first pr