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Please use the money to rewrite it in Jakt ;) Jakt needs a posterchild project to receive the required attention. Besides, it would send not one but two strong messages to Mozilla
I feel like I'm on the ground level of when Firefox was first being built. It's a very exciting project that is 100% for a free, open web. What a great achievement!
If you’d like a quick intro to the Ladybird project, I presented it at a conference earlier this month: https://youtu.be/De8N1zrQwRs
Huge thanks to Mike, Tobi and the other folks at Shopify who hooked this up. <3
I'm very happy Shopify is doing this, but at the same time I'm mildly confused by the rationale. Is it literally just goodwill, or does Shopify stand to have other potential advantages out of this? Either way, cool.
Hello friends! I’m really happy to have Shopify putting their faith in our little project like this :) If you’d like a quick intro to the Ladybird project, I presented it at a conference earlier this month: https://youtu.be/De8N1zrQwRs Huge thanks to Mike, Tobi and the other folks at Shopify who hooked this up. <3
One question that might have already popped up: with more and more attention going to Ladybird (in contrast to SerenityOS), how will these sponsorships direct what you do in both projects?
I'm very happy Shopify is doing this, but at the same time I'm mildly confused by the rationale. Is it literally just goodwill, or does Shopify stand to have other potential advantages out of this? Either way, cool.
- Could be "just" goodwill, paying this out of the marketing budget to strengthen brand recognition amongst developers.
- Goodwill amongst developers is not just a feelgood benefit btw. Being known for supporting open source projects might help with the hiring pipeline for example. Making current employees feel better about Shopify would presumably also reduce employees turnover rate, leading to lower recruiting costs.
- Shopify as a company is extremely dependent on "the web" for its business, and would benefit from it being built on open standards. Supporting a variety of browsers leads to more competition in the browser space, which would support Shopify in the long run (see also the classic "commoditize your complement" article: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/ )
Hello friends! I’m really happy to have Shopify putting their faith in our little project like this :) If you’d like a quick intro to the Ladybird project, I presented it at a conference earlier this month: https://youtu.be/De8N1zrQwRs Huge thanks to Mike, Tobi and the other folks at Shopify who hooked this up. <3
Congratulations Andreas! One question that might have already popped up: with more and more attention going to Ladybird (in contrast to SerenityOS), how will these sponsorships direct what you do in both projects?
Indeed, all of these large sponsorships so far have been specifically for Ladybird development.
That’s also what I’ve been personally focusing on for many months already, so nothing really changes about my day-to-day.
The main new thing this enables is hiring more full-time engineers to work on the browser. (Still have details to figure out here though!)
That said, keep in mind that 99% of work on Ladybird also improves SerenityOS, since they are part of the same mega-project. :)
Any plans for bringing Ladybird to other operating systems?
We’ve also seen screenshots of Ladybird on FreeBSD, Haiku, and even Android at one point. Those are not maintained though, but we’ll come back to them eventually I’m sure :)