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Finally, another web engine is being developed to compete with Chromium and Firefox (Gecko), and they're also working on a browser that will use it.

Here's the maintainer talking about the current state of the project, and a demo of the current functionality

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How is it progressing so fast compared to Servo? Isn't Servo being developed for a longer time?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's the problem with the gecko engine?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's the problem with the blink engine?

Multiple implementations is good for everyone.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago

I don't know if it's a good idea to build a new engine from scratch... Maybe it is but I don't know, behind an engine you need to have support and development, so this thing needs to be improved and supported along the versions to be safe, so I don't know if it's a good idea or not 🙃

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

There was a gpl licensed browser engine someone by hobby is writing from scratch. I think theese companies supporting ladybird just do so because of license that they can proprietarify(like chromium)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There was a gpl licensed browser engine someone by hobby is writing from scratch. I think theese companies supporting ladybird just do so because of license that they can proprietarify(like chromium)

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