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Petersipoitoday at 5:09 PM2 repliesview on HN

What is the advantage of building a browser engine from scratch? As opposed to just forking Blink and maintaining it as a separate project? Seems like the former just adds an ungodly amount of work and still doesn't solve the problem of Google using its weight to control web standards.

If Firefox and Apple can't rein in Google with their competing engines, what exactly does Ladybird change?


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kermatttoday at 6:19 PM

> What is the advantage of building a browser engine from scratch?

Same reason some of us choose Linux over Windows.

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swed420today at 7:07 PM

> What is the advantage of building a browser engine from scratch?

Straight from the source:

https://ladybird.org/posts/why-ladybird/