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minus-squareasdfasdfasdf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months ago C++ If they’re starting a browser from scratch, why would they not have chosen Rust? Seems very short sighted to not have learned from Firefox.
minus-squareKayn@dormi.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThis you? https://forum.qt.io/topic/142885/rewriting-qt-in-rust
minus-squareProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThey used c++ initially since it was spawned from SerenityOS, which was designed to be a mashup of win2000 and unix. now that Ladybird is its own project, it’s not constrained to that goal, and they have said they will incorporate modern languages.
If they’re starting a browser from scratch, why would they not have chosen Rust? Seems very short sighted to not have learned from Firefox.
This you?
https://forum.qt.io/topic/142885/rewriting-qt-in-rust
They used c++ initially since it was spawned from SerenityOS, which was designed to be a mashup of win2000 and unix.
now that Ladybird is its own project, it’s not constrained to that goal, and they have said they will incorporate modern languages.