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

https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz - This kinda covers the "engine without JS" part, it's a bit more limited, but also in alpha. It's part of the dioxus project, they use it for rendering UI on desktop.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Oh now that's interesting. I've always wondered (not knowing much about how they're made) if it would be possible to make a desktop compositor for Linux that simply uses HTML and CSS. One could even natively embed local pages in it.

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