Ladybird Browser

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Epiphany exists, which is a browser that is based on WebKit.

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Right, I forgot about that. I remember trying it once a couple of years ago. Iā€™ll give it another look, thanks.

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We got Gmail (full interface) working in @ladybirdbrowser, letā€™s fricken gooooooo! :rocket:

This one is nice because Iā€™ve been told by many people ā€œyouā€™ll never be able to handle modern web apps like Gmailā€

Donā€™t listen to armchair defeatists. We can build whatever we want! :nerd_face:

https://xcancel.com/awesomekling/status/1880257583925350828#m

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:flushed_face:

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Good news, no? Considering how important Cloudflare is, I donā€™t see this as a red flag. Its atleast good that and Ladybird is getting proper sponsorships that makes me believe the browser/project wonā€™t die out or lose momentum.

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Iā€™m not a developer so take this opinion with a huge grain of salt, but Ladybirds choice to use C++ and not use a more modern memory safe language

C++ is still the gold standard for operating systems and traditional GUI development. You can write safe C++ if you exploit the modern features of the language.

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Also worth noting that Ladybird is planning to switch to Swift once some language features are finished

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Itā€™s still such a long way from being releasedā€¦ Iā€™d rather focus on solving problems now. :wink:

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You can write sound code even with ancient versions of C or C++, but history has shown us that you assume all large codebases of memory unsafe code contain memory corruption bugs. This applies to modern C++ too