Fable 5 Ported the Ladybird Browser to WebAssembly in One Shot and It Cost $552 (twitter.com)

26 points by ent101 3mo ago ↗ HN

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If this is true, software is essentially worthless.

gjvc 3mo ago ↗

nonsense. way too cheap. add a couple/few of zeros and maybe.

_wire_ 3mo ago ↗

What was the human operator cost?

How was the port verified as complete?

ronsor 3mo ago ↗

A WASM browser is cool for general portability reasons. Right now porting browsers to bespoke targets is a major PITA, even for WebKit.