Seems a bit ambitious for only less than a dozen full-time engineers in two years.
Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder
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Re: Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder
#83Hello 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 :)
What's the trouble with the Android port?
It's an unmaintained prototype without anyone actively working on it.
Once we get the desktop version into decent shape, we will direct more attention to mobile platforms. At the moment there's just too much important low-hanging fruit that's easier to develop (and debug!) on desktop :)
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
A classic: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... >> "The idea that new code is better than old is patently absurd. Old code has been used. It has been tested. Lots of bugs have been found, and they’ve been fixed. There’s nothing wrong with it. It doesn’t acquire bugs just by sitting around on your hard drive." >> "Each of these bugs took weeks of real-world usage before they were found. The…
The only exception is if you have 500k LOC in a language whose runtime is going to be deprecated on all platforms overnight. I'm referring to the uh, retrospectively unfortunate decision I made in 2007 to start building large scale business app frontends in AS3. I guess I should be thankful for the work, having to rewrite everything in TS from scratch a decade later. (At least the backends didn't have to be torn down…
There's a parallel universe where someone convinced you to rewrite it in something else from the start and you spent years on the rewrite instead and it never went anywhere. Could you have done that emergency rewrite without 10 years of becoming an expert in the problem you were solving? The alternative universe has you spending time becoming an expert in a new language instead and maybe not getting anywhere with the rewrite.
Re: Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder
#85It is a great honor to see a website I designed and coded at the top of the Hacker News front page! A big thank you to Chris Wanstrath for allowing me to work on it. I hope Ladybird becomes a mainstream browser, and I feel this is a moment similar to when Firefox rebranded from Phoenix.
P.S. Check out my UI/UX portfolio at https://hipfolio.co
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is only the second time i've seen this project so maybe this is just your perspective.
Twenty hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40845954 Also twenty hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40845951 One day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40838973 Along with 60 other threads you can see by clicking the link I posted.
I think it shows that people are interested in seeing new browsers that are not based on Webkit/Chrome that are not called Firefox.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
It depends on what you mean by “Mozilla’s fate”. In general, we are setting a much narrower goal than Mozilla and hope that focusing on only browsers will allow us to keep things simple and more sustainable financially. :)
Mozilla is dependent on advertising money from Google, is that only because they ventured in other directions? I'm not intimate with their finances, but it seems just building a browser is a large enough - expensive - R&D effort. Are you planning on charging your users?
I think it's the other way around. They determined that to become less reliant on Google for revenue they should explore other directions, and that hasn't been very succesful.
Though I don't fully understand why pulling funding for new browser technology was part of their strategy going forward. Servo was one of the projects that made me excited about using Firefox. I bet that big announcements about moving Firefox to Rust would have consistently bumped usage numbers. As much as people voice their opinions about the RiiR movement in the comments here, it's clear people love those kinds of projects just for the technical novelty. I know I do.
Re: Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder
#88Hello 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 :)
What's the pitch for those who currently use firefox?
Maybe they’ll add tab groups.
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#89> 501(c)(3) non-profit How come a european project becomes an american foundation?
Money of course.
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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’…
Relying on open standards is risky. It seems to me the de facto standard is whatever Chrome or Blink does.