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Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

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Re: Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

monacobolid wrote: post #23
BadHumans wrote: post #12

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Ladybird has started using Swift.

For UI portion of their Mac OS version? What am I missing?

For everything. Swift is—at least in theory—a general purpose language, it's not exclusively for Apple technologies.

> First off, Swift has both memory & data race safety (as of v6). It's also a modern language with solid ergonomics.

> Something that matters to us a lot is OO. Web specs & browser internals tend to be highly object-oriented, and life is easier when you can model specs closely in your code. Swift has first-class OO support, in many ways even nicer than C++.

> The Swift team is also investing heavily in C++ interop, which means there's a real path to incremental adoption, not just gigantic rewrites.

https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822236888188498031

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41208836

Re: Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

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Post by askonomm »

monacobolid wrote: post #23
BadHumans wrote: post #12

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Ladybird has started using Swift.

For UI portion of their Mac OS version? What am I missing?

For non-UI portions as well, more from the horses mouth: https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822236888188498031

Re: Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

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Post by RandomThoughts3 »

worble wrote: post #25
RandomThoughts3 wrote: post #24

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Are you trying to say that Ladybird does not exist? https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird The code is here, you can build and run it right now.

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Re: Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

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Post by StrauXX »

satvikpendem wrote: post #28
spankalee wrote: post #27

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The newest Reddit - not the React version, but the Lit version that's replacing it - uses very, very modern HTML and JavaScript. I'd love to see Servo get to the point of rendering it correctly!

How many times are they going to rewrite the site? And how can you see the Lit versus React version, is there another link for it?

There is old.reddit.com, reddit.com and new.reddit.com. new.reddit.com is not the same site as reddit.com!

Re: Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

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Post by BoredPositron »

hypeatei wrote: post #29
spankalee wrote: post #27

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The newest Reddit - not the React version, but the Lit version that's replacing it - uses very, very modern HTML and JavaScript. I'd love to see Servo get to the point of rendering it correctly!

Pretty amazing how a company can overengineer a basic feed that displays images and text (and ads). New Reddit is a dumpster fire, can't imagine another rewrite is going to fix it.

Yeah, I’ve never thought anyone could build a video player worse than realplayer but they achieved the impossible.
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