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Ladybird Browser adopts Rust, with help from AI (ladybird.org)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Lobsters.

We’ve been searching for a memory-safe programming language to replace C++ in Ladybird for a while now. We previously explored Swift, but the C++ interop never quite got there, and platform support outside the Apple ecosystem was limited. Rust is a different story. The ecosystem is far more mature for systems programming, and many of our contributors already know the language. Going forward, we are rewriting parts of Ladybird in Rust.

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[–] 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Someone could theoretically fork ladybird and strip out the AI, but it would be a lot of work.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    it's not that they are adding AI to the browser. it's that they are letting an AI develop the browser

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    they are letting an AI develop the browser

    The port from C++ to Rust was assisted by an LLM. That's different from "ChatGPT, write me a web browser".

    I cannot speak for the quality of that code, nor advocating for it, I merely want to make that distinction.

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