Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor

#1

Post by msub2 » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 4:48 AM UTC

Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor
awesomekling.substack.com

Re: Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor

#2

Post by riffraff » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 6:21 AM UTC

I'm very happy Shopify is doing this, but at the same time I'm mildly confused by the rationale.

Is it literally just goodwill, or does Shopify stand to have other potential advantages out of this?

Either way, cool.

Re: Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor

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Post by thunderbong » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 6:26 AM UTC

We seriously need a good open source browser alternative. Great to see competition here.

I would love to see a browser built for developers with new paradigms for Dev Tools.

Of course, the challenge will be parity in terms of rendering and performance with the current incumbents.

Re: Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor

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Post by thunderbong » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 6:29 AM UTC

riffraff wrote: post #2

I'm very happy Shopify is doing this, but at the same time I'm mildly confused by the rationale. Is it literally just goodwill, or does Shopify stand to have other potential advantages out of this? Either way, cool.

Maybe someone from Shopify will pipe in. They have a very strong engineering team and their posts are of high quality.

Re: Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor

#5

Post by easton » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 6:29 AM UTC

Very cool that Ladybird has gotten like $300k in the last month after years of Andreas and co working on it for significantly less than that.

Re: Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor

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Post by chrismsimpson » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 6:31 AM UTC

Wow! That’s massive! I declare 202x the year of the SerenityOS Desktop!

Re: Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor

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Post by bilekas » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 6:37 AM UTC

This is incredible!! Great news and really happy for him. Watching the browser alone come to life has been an absolute treat!

Re: Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 6:39 AM UTC

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Re: Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor

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Post by sergiotapia » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 6:41 AM UTC

I feel like I'm on the ground level of when Firefox was first being built. It's a very exciting project that is 100% for a free, open web. What a great achievement!

Re: Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor

#10

Post by kramerger » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 6:42 AM UTC

Please use the money to rewrite it in Jakt ;)

Jakt needs a posterchild project to receive the required attention. Besides, it would send not one but two strong messages to Mozilla