Nothing a little printf (or dbgln as it is known as in Serenity-Ladybird land) can't fix
Current blockers to swift usage are found here: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/issues/933 Rising tide lifts all boats, by trying to use Swift seriously, they're finding and helping fix bugs in the compiler
The browser was not started with the idea of taking over the main focus of development, it was just another part of an already pretty large hobby OS project
The core Swift Lang has is being made more independent of Apple, and can be compiled for an increasing number of platforms thanks to the LLVM-based compiler
Extremely saddened. I quite liked the site, I hoped it could stay afloat
Ladybird is for the modern web, not so the late 90s, early 00s anymore. I don't see a worry of integrating domain-specific third party libraries, we were able to drop thousands of lines of non-Web code that people would…
It was AI-generated
It already loads most websites pretty well (The JS engine is nearly complete!). Currently the big tasks are implementing the remaining web APIs and improving performance, stability, and security, so IMO 2026 is a good…
Nothing a little printf (or dbgln as it is known as in Serenity-Ladybird land) can't fix
Current blockers to swift usage are found here: https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/issues/933 Rising tide lifts all boats, by trying to use Swift seriously, they're finding and helping fix bugs in the compiler
The browser was not started with the idea of taking over the main focus of development, it was just another part of an already pretty large hobby OS project
The core Swift Lang has is being made more independent of Apple, and can be compiled for an increasing number of platforms thanks to the LLVM-based compiler
Extremely saddened. I quite liked the site, I hoped it could stay afloat
Ladybird is for the modern web, not so the late 90s, early 00s anymore. I don't see a worry of integrating domain-specific third party libraries, we were able to drop thousands of lines of non-Web code that people would…
It was AI-generated
It already loads most websites pretty well (The JS engine is nearly complete!). Currently the big tasks are implementing the remaining web APIs and improving performance, stability, and security, so IMO 2026 is a good…