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Re: I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser

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> written in Rust What? From my knowledge Jakt is written in C++ and Jakt itself, not Rust. Sure the first implementation was written in Rust but it was quickly replaced when Adreas took over the project.

How do they debug Jakt code? I mean other than dumping things to screen which is not very pleasant experience.

It is transpiled to C++.

Re: I have received a $100k sponsorship for Ladybird browser

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Nobody cares there's only one implementation that's really used widely for Java. I don't see why I should care what VM is used for the web. Chromium can be that and you can build whatever tooling on top to interact with that VM

I think this argument would have credibility if it wasn't for the fact that Google is ostensibly waging a war against the ability to extend the browser in any way that harms their ads business (with Manifest v3). Google has a massive conflict of interest with the free and independent web in a way that Oracle does not have with the ability to build and run arbitrary Java applications.

Same could be said about Oracle a decade or two ago honestly
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