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10 years is far from the truth. SerenityOS was started 8 years ago and ladybird wasn't split from Serenity until 2024 and has an alpha scheduled for release this year. It's been 2-…

Good call! I’ve heard Andreas say multiple times building a browser is like building an emulator. Each website uses different features in different ways, and he likens websites to …

I agree on it being fantastic. For your other questions I found these in the linked text - https://sr.ht/~jprotopopov/kefir/#goals-and-priorities - https://sr.ht/~jprotopopov/kefir…

In the "for ... else" example, am I wrong to think this is a typo? Should it be "if (sample.key == key)". The second example doesn't help clarify since the resulting variable is sh…

Are you sure about that? Unless I'm misunderstanding they did fix this: https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/json "In v1, a nil Go slice or Go map is marshaled as a JSON null. In contrast, …

I believe Chromium is closer to 35m LOC

I think its more of a comment that "err != nil" is used in the vast majority of cases, so you start to treat it as noise and skim it.

Any time I write "if err == nil" I write // inverted just to make it stick out. It would be nice if it was handled by the language but just wanted to share a way to at least make i…

It really isn't that hard to imagine someone starting a fun hobby project in the language they enjoyed and were the most comfortable with.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43264301

> I hope we get monthly or at least quarterly Ladybird Newsletter just to keep the attention of the project along with attracting those who still dont know. They do monthly newslet…

> If those opinions match what you're trying to do and you can stay on the golden path, it's freaking great! That's a great summary. I wrote a few significant flask apps many years…

I've heard people complain about Django many time on HN. I started using it back in the 0.96 version, so maybe its just a familiarity thing. But I built 3 large successful applicat…

Google pays Apple ~$20B to be default search engine in Safari/Webkit though

Can you elaborate? I’ve been using it for over 10 years and it might just be my favorite piece of software. It’s central to all development I do. I use many features of git that I …

OpenBSD is also known for this. They constantly push back against adding configuration knobs or running non standard configurations. Have you used OpenBSD? You're telling them they…

I can't think of any long term, open source project that has removed and ripped out more code than OpenBSD. They are know for doing exactly what you are suggesting. Go ask @tedunan…

> You should target all audiences. Here is a list of OSes[0]. Where do you draw the line on supporting these? Should every new project try to support all of these? Do you, doublera…

Just answering for myself, but it's because I like the programming/engine aspects. Not the creative aspects of the art/music/level-design/rules/balance/etc. I can use an existing g…

Click on the die a couple times and it speeds up

> But checking out branches I do on the command line Just in case you have a longer workflow, checking out a branch should just be `b b` and then select the branch from a list with…

I had the same itch for a long time. I eventually took the free Harvard CS50 course. Its the video lectures you can watch on demand. It gets into python at the end which I skipped …

My absolute favorite podcast. Pumped every month for the new episode. I think I've gone back and listened to nearly every one. Thanks so much for doing the show Adam. Some random i…