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Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder

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Post by kosolam »

awesomekling wrote: post #5

Hello friends, Ladybird founder here! Here's a short video from Chris Wanstrath announcing our non-profit yesterday, and kicking things off with a $1M donation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9edTqPMX_k Happy to answer questions :)

Hey Andreas! Why you don’t just fork the code of Firefox or Chromium's and start from that point, building a Browser company like some others?

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Post by wwwwwwwweb »

awesomekling wrote: post #5

Hello friends, Ladybird founder here! Here's a short video from Chris Wanstrath announcing our non-profit yesterday, and kicking things off with a $1M donation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9edTqPMX_k Happy to answer questions :)

> we have almost half a million lines of modern C++ to maintain. ...We are actively evaluating a number of alternatives and will be adding a mature successor language to the project in the near future. This process is already quite far along, and prototypes exist in multiple languages.

What languages have prototypes and where can I learn more?

Re: Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder

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Post by cantreadwont »

no_time wrote: post #2

Looks like the website of a startup that wants my email so they can "get back to me with a quote". Such soulless corpo design is not befitting of a project this nice.

I was about to say that it had a reason to look like ass in that they never really worked on it at all to begin with, being focused on the browser, which wasn't even good enough for anything more than dev work, rather than the presentation of it.

But I see now that they actually updated the site.

Re: Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder

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Post by master-lincoln »

PedroBatista wrote: post #20
bayindirh wrote: post #16

I wonder what would happen if Ladybird matures well to compete with Firefox and Chrome (hope so), and it's just forked away by some company and completely closed down in a whim, because BSD-2 allows that.

Why is that such a problem other than the human factor of seeing your code being used by some guys you don’t like?

It supports capitalistic predatory tactics that erode our society. Better to exclude them...

Re: Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder

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Post by frou_dh »

moreofthis wrote: post #41
no_time wrote: post #2

Looks like the website of a startup that wants my email so they can "get back to me with a quote". Such soulless corpo design is not befitting of a project this nice.

I had a similar first impression. The previous logo and branding were pretty strong imo even if the SerenityOS and ladybird website was/is a bit scrappy. Very cute little ladybird, and the natural patterns of a ladybug gave a clear visual motif to build from. People talk about 'polish' in design as a signifier of quality but my mind always goes to conching, the process by which cacao nibs are ground down over days to…

The new logo's shape and colours look reminiscent of Helix's https://helix-editor.com, but I agree that the actual ladybird was nice.

Re: Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder

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Post by sirwhinesalot »

yuvadam wrote: post #10
awesomekling wrote: post #5

Hello friends, Ladybird founder here! Here's a short video from Chris Wanstrath announcing our non-profit yesterday, and kicking things off with a $1M donation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9edTqPMX_k Happy to answer questions :)

How does Ladybird avoid Mozilla's fate? How can it be a long term sustainable project?

Don't throw money away into non-browser related projects while constantly pissing off your loyal userbase.

Re: Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder

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Post by master-lincoln »

wordofx wrote: post #47

2026? It’s so far away it will prob be forgotten by the time anyone can use it…

2 years is far away? You must be very young or very close to death I assume... It doesn't need to be remembered until then. If it matures and gets usable you will read about it again ;)

Re: Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder

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Post by awesomekling »

kosolam wrote: post #51
awesomekling wrote: post #5

Hello friends, Ladybird founder here! Here's a short video from Chris Wanstrath announcing our non-profit yesterday, and kicking things off with a $1M donation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9edTqPMX_k Happy to answer questions :)

Hey Andreas! Why you don’t just fork the code of Firefox or Chromium's and start from that point, building a Browser company like some others?

Hey kosolam! There are already many forks and ports of existing browsers. Do we really need another one? :)

By building a new engine, we can increase ecosystem diversity and put all these open standards to the test. We regularly find, report, and sometimes even fix bugs in the various web standards - stuff we find just by being the first to try and implement everything from scratch in a long time!

We also believe it’s good for the world to have more engines that aren’t directly or indirectly funded primarily by the advertising industry.

Re: Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder

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Post by SushiHippie »

awesomekling wrote: post #5

Hello friends, Ladybird founder here! Here's a short video from Chris Wanstrath announcing our non-profit yesterday, and kicking things off with a $1M donation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9edTqPMX_k Happy to answer questions :)

How does ladybird compare to Servo?

https://servo.org/

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