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

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Post by samwillis »

xvilka wrote: post #12

Congratulations! I wish someone would sponsor completing Servo as fast as possible, or completing rewriting of Firefox in Rust.

Servo was moved to the Linux Foundation in 2019, and earlier this year Igalia (an open source consulting company) contributed funds and developer time to advance the project. I believe they have a small team full time on it. You can read more here:

https://servo.org/blog/2023/01/16/servo-2023/

https://people.igalia.com/mrego/servo/igalia-servo-tsc-2022/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34400214

So, your "wish someone would sponsor completing Servo as fast as possible", is looking like it's coming true.

Note though that Servo and Ladybird have vary different motivations and objectives.

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

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Post by tester756 »

jraph wrote: post #20

Ladybird looks amazing. Just as I was losing faith that building a browser from scratch today was an almost impossible task that only a big company could pull off, they proved otherwise. I compiled it and added packages to install on openSUSE for this in the readme... which was easy because you don't need much to build this browser! And it builds in a few minutes. I wish Discord was not mandatory to interact with the…

>Just as I lost faith that building a browser from scratch today was an almost impossible task that only a big company could pull off, they proved otherwise.

I feel like just intersection of people who know how web / webbrowser works and know how to write compilers is relatively low

like both of those independently are rare

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

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Post by marginalia_nu »

Fantastic! Well deserved!

It's the exactly right type of project. High profile and high impact. The status quo of the software industry needs to be shaken up, and this has the potential to be exact right sort of rude awakening.

The fact that solo devs or small teams on a shoestring budget are time and time again shown to be surprisingly competitive with billion dollar companies retaining supposedly the best and brightest in the world is undeniably egg on their face.

It raises concerning questions about the entire industry, how we do things when we build software, where money is flowing.

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

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Post by badpun »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #23

Fantastic! Well deserved! It's the exactly right type of project. High profile and high impact. The status quo of the software industry needs to be shaken up, and this has the potential to be exact right sort of rude awakening. The fact that solo devs or small teams on a shoestring budget are time and time again shown to be surprisingly competitive with billion dollar companies retaining supposedly the best and brigh…

Ladybird is currently far from competetive. Andreas himself told that his loose goal for Ladybird is to be able to render YouTube page correctly and play video with sound - 5 years from now.

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

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Post by marginalia_nu »

badpun wrote: post #24
marginalia_nu wrote: post #23

Fantastic! Well deserved! It's the exactly right type of project. High profile and high impact. The status quo of the software industry needs to be shaken up, and this has the potential to be exact right sort of rude awakening. The fact that solo devs or small teams on a shoestring budget are time and time again shown to be surprisingly competitive with billion dollar companies retaining supposedly the best and brigh…

Ladybird is currently far from competetive. Andreas himself told that his loose goal for Ladybird is to be able to render YouTube page correctly and play video with sound - 5 years from now.

I'm looking mostly at what it could be. Ladybird has every potential of becoming the Linux of web browsers. And it took Linux what, over a decade to mostly displace the competition in the server space.

These types of projects are long term, but public perception matters. Making waves matters. The audacious possibility that it might just succeed matters.

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

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Post by FpUser »

Congrats for such a nice acknowledgement of your work. While looking at their other project I am curious that the author has decided to invent their own memory safe language currently implemented as transpiler to C++ written in Rust. Why not to just use Rust as their system language. I can imagine potential nightmares when debugging such concoction.

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

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Post by mcherm »

bruce511 wrote: post #6

For more context see [1]. At first glance I felt that 100k wasn't really going to move the needle in creating a new browser engine but in fact (after reading the link below) it's not insignificant. There are a lot of contributers to this project, and funding the project lead is a big step in the right direction. Realistically another browser engine really isn't needed. 2 is enough. Given the scale of the work involve…

> another browser engine really isn't needed. 2 is enough.

I profoundly disagree with this statement. 2 is too few.

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

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Post by grey_earthling »

cyberpunk wrote: post #18
xvilka wrote: post #12

Congratulations! I wish someone would sponsor completing Servo as fast as possible, or completing rewriting of Firefox in Rust.

If only there was some kind of foundation which could choose where to spend the many millions of funding it receives each year...

Of course the wisest thing to spend it on would be integrating a proprietary competitor to Wallabag. That's exactly what the open web needs most.

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

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Post by badpun »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #25
badpun wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ladybird is currently far from competetive. Andreas himself told that his loose goal for Ladybird is to be able to render YouTube page correctly and play video with sound - 5 years from now.

I'm looking mostly at what it could be. Ladybird has every potential of becoming the Linux of web browsers. And it took Linux what, over a decade to mostly displace the competition in the server space. These types of projects are long term, but public perception matters. Making waves matters. The audacious possibility that it might just succeed matters.

Linux is Linux thanks to large involvement of big tech. It remains to be seen if any Big Tech companies would be interested in seriously supporting development of an open source browser.
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