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What projects does the opensource world lack (programming.dev)

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Is there some project that the opensource world is missing that you think it needs?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

At the minute, a true open source and free browser/web engine, though I know this is nigh impossible to maintain without thousands of people. Some part of me is hopeful though given recent events.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

https://ladybird.org/ is pretty cool, tho it definitely needs more work

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They exist. Firefox and chromium are open source. Big companies pay their dev costs but they can be forked. Chromium is a descendent of WebKit which is a descendent of khtml from the KDE project. The engines have been open source for decades It's the proprietary crap they put on top which is the problem.