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> Which is why I wish they would use a less liberal and more copy-left license to stop this scenario from happening. Huh? You wish SerenityOS's browser engine was not a viable competitor to the Google/Apple browser duopoly? Kind of a weird POV, if you ask me.
How on earth is that what you extract from that sentence??
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> we are in a world where open source is the way. I think you're in a bubble. The world still runs primarily on closed source and proprietary software and services.
Linux, Nginx, Apache, PHP, MySQL, WordPress, Chrome, Firefox, various open source NoSQL DBs, NodeJS, Python, RoR… most software is definitely open source. There are the Oracles, z/OS, and MS products and some SaaS stuff, but open source is eating the Earth.
I wouldn't be surprised if, at some point, some commercial project adopts a part of Serenity and turns it into a huge hit, even outside of tech. Such things have definitely happened in the past.. Not many (average) people have heard of KDE or its web engine, KHTML, but almost everybody these days uses Chrome, which, through Apple's WebKit, is descended from KHTML itself. Serenity uses its own libraries everywhere, to…
Fun fact: Andreas contributed to KHTML https://github.com/KDE/khtml/blob/41057a9a8e491b72c8296bf5ed...
I think there is more behind SerenityOS that elevates it above being just another OS project. They've attracted hundreds of contributors and have instilled a unique sense of culture within their community (as an example, going as far to devote an entire GitHub repository to documenting a list of "yak-shaving" yak emojis[1]). I think that kind of social endeavor isn't something a lot of maintainers can accomplish, not…
Other OS projects I have seen either lack vision (same as x, but written in y), or they are just for the personal learning of the developer who started it.
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It's not criticizing anything at all, just suggesting an alternative. We're all always using products that are other people's work, why not ALSO work on something where you author and build your own system?
Ah, I thought you were talking about projects that make something novel vs projects that glue together APIs to create something new. I see what you mean now, sorry.
I think there is more behind SerenityOS that elevates it above being just another OS project. They've attracted hundreds of contributors and have instilled a unique sense of culture within their community (as an example, going as far to devote an entire GitHub repository to documenting a list of "yak-shaving" yak emojis[1]). I think that kind of social endeavor isn't something a lot of maintainers can accomplish, not…
Super welcoming community + a clear and strong vision to guide the project. Other OS projects I have seen either lack vision (same as x, but written in y), or they are just for the personal learning of the developer who started it.
I played around with this a few months back and really wished they were targeting ARM. I wonder if that will ever be on the cards...
There are a number of people actively pushing ARM support forward.
> The original Jakt prototype was written in Rust by myself and JT over a couple of weeks before we made it public. I wrote a post introducing Jakt and the motivations behind it. And JT made a video about the creation of Jakt as well. The Rust-based compiler is now long-gone, and Jakt is fully self-hosted with the Jakt compiler being written in Jakt itself. It's always humbling for me to read updates from SerenityOS…