We're excited to announce our support of two independent, open source projects: Ladybird, an ambitious project to build a completely independent browser from the ground up, and Omarchy, an opinionated Arch Linux setup for developers.

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    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Perhaps Servo isn’t apolitical enough. 🥹

      Remember, technology is political and our major technology-related problems are political, not technological. We wouldn’t be building alternative browsing engines if Chromium was a community-built project, unaffiliated with an ad company.

      E: FWIW, this comment suggest the initial political Ladybird snafu may have been remediated.

        • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Or maybe servo didn’t mourn the fascist Charlie Kirk enough: This is Ladybird’s Creator.

          Oh boy. Yeah, that’s pretty clear. Anyone putting Kirk in a positive position as a genuine debater of ideas has crossed the rubicon or placating someone who has.

      • Blisterexe@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I think that kinda weird and bad statement from the ladybird lead makes way more sense when you realize that his first language is german.

        German, like other gendered languages, uses the male gender for an unknown person, using a genderless pronoun like “they” in german is a deliberate political stance that would prompt debate and is unusual and, frankly, weird, since the male pronoun is used as a neutral one.

        Given that he apologized and changed it to they later, and no other incident of the sort happened since, I personally am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

        The ladybird contributing guidelines currently read:

        Use gender-neutral pronouns, except when referring to a specific person.

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          2 months ago

          i take less issue with him using gendered pronouns by default than i do with him being overly dismissive of someone trying to adjust the language to be more inclusive.

  • xep@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    2 months ago

    CF aside, I’m not the biggest fan that Ladybird decided on Swift, since it’s such an Apple-centric language. Wish they’d sponsored Servo instead.

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Swift is open source (Apache 2) and is a very pleasant language to work with. I would have gone with Rust, personally, but I can’t fault anyone for choosing Swift. It’s a very underrated language.

  • sorter_plainview@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Isn’t Ladybird adopting Swift as their preferred language? I’m slightly confused on why Ladybird over Servo. But I am sure people at Cloudflare have more knowledge than me. So I guess there is a good reason.

      • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 months ago

        How does that work?

        Working with raw buffers and memory in Swift is a frustrating experience.

        I’m a big fan of Swift, but when I drop to systems level I don’t feel it’s a good fit.