alt Hacker Newsi rememebr seeing interviews saying rust is not suited for this project because of recursion and dom tree. how they tested multiple languages and settled on swift. then they abandon swift and now they shift towards rust.
this entire project starts to look like "how am i feeling today?" rather than a serious project.
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norman784 • today at 2:27 PM
From the link it seems that Ladybird architecture is very modular, in this case LibJS is one of the subsystems that has less external dependencies, said that they don't need to migrate everything, only the parts that makes sense.
MrFurious • today at 1:08 PM
Yes, i understand that in a personal project, but they have investors behind them.
cromka • today at 1:33 PM
They adopted Rust for LibJS, not the browser and its engine.
So Swift didn't turned out like they imagined and Rust is just the next best alternative to that failed vision using Swift.
So far this is the first and only shift