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Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative
(ladybird.org)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The website makes it sound like all of the code being bespoke and "based on standards" is some kind of huge advantage but all I see is a Herculean undertaking with too few engineers and too many standards.
W3C lists 1138 separate standards currently, so if each of their three engineers implements one discrete standard every day, with no breaks/weekends/holidays, then having an alpha available that adheres to all 2024 web standards should be possible by 2026?
This is obviously also without testing but these guys are serious, senior engineers, so their code will be perfect on the first try, right?
Love the passion though, can't wait to see how this project plays out.
Let's not do zomething because it's hard pretty much sums up every new generation.
Imagine if they said that when they had to program everything in assembly...
Software nowadays is a lot more complex. You'd get nowhere using assembly. Are you also gonna call me lazy if I say making a smartphone from scratch is complicated? "But the Nokia 1234 only had 4kb of memory" Is what you will probably say.
You'd get nowhere using assembly because people wanted to keep improving technology.
The Nokia was actually build and freakin' rock solid. Then came smartphones because people wanted to improve. It sure wasn't easy and they didn't go Geez, a phone from scratch? Why bother?