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It took Mozilla more than 25 years to write Firefox's HTML engine and here are a couple of geniuses who write a web browser from scratch in just a few years!! Including Javascript (however, as of yet lacking video and WebGL).
And Google's Chromium is simply a convoluted mess, chockful with vulnerabilities and memory corruption errors.
Clearly I have no idea what Ladybird browser is. Why should I be impressed? I would expect every browser to be capable of this. EDIT: Lots of great answers. Thanks everyone. Glad this inspired such lively discussion.
It's a NEW browser in every sense of the word - a new rendering and JS engine, not built on top of Chromium's (or Firefox's) backends. It's impressive because most people have a few preconceived notions: a) It is impossible to build a NEW browser given the complexity and huge history, b) browsers need to rely on JIT and other tricks. This browser is new hobby project, from scratch, breaks away from the preconceived n…
> It is impossible to build a NEW browser given the complexity and huge history
Building some browser is certainly possible. What's difficult/impossible is to build a browser from scratch which runs 99% of existing websites correctly.
> browsers need to rely on JIT and other tricks
... to be fast in today's JS-rich websites. I believe that as well.
Clearly I have no idea what Ladybird browser is. Why should I be impressed? I would expect every browser to be capable of this. EDIT: Lots of great answers. Thanks everyone. Glad this inspired such lively discussion.
Ladybird is a NEW browser. If you don't want to see NEW things, why are you on hacker NEWs?
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Nobody is trying to impress you. There have been no new browser engines for years, with the idea that its impossible to develop one anymore being a meme people would espouse regularly. This is impressive as a group of random interested people have made significant progress to making a functional web browser off the back of passion, not billions of dollars. Andreas has be an incredible force for showing what bringing…
I think you may have misinterpreted my comment. I just wanted to know why this was news.
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EDIT: I was wrong, this doesn't just run on SerenityOS. Guess it's not limited to being a toy. Thank you everyone for the correction.
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It seems like it will only work on SerenityOS, which seems like it explicitly does not support third party software. Someone correct me if I'm wrong about that, but that seems like an indication that it wont be much more than a toy. EDIT: I was wrong, this doesn't just run on SerenityOS. Guess it's not limited to being a toy. Thank you everyone for the correction.
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It seems like it will only work on SerenityOS, which seems like it explicitly does not support third party software. Someone correct me if I'm wrong about that, but that seems like an indication that it wont be much more than a toy. EDIT: I was wrong, this doesn't just run on SerenityOS. Guess it's not limited to being a toy. Thank you everyone for the correction.