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Why do we need another browser engine written in C++?

Building an browser engine from scratch is a great exercise for validating both the specifications and the web platform tests.

For example, here's some bugs raised by Andreas Kling in the HTML spec that were found while building Ladybird:

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues?q=is%3Aissue+author%3A...

Can you explain why people shouldn't pursue passion projects because they are written in a language you don't like?

Not the parent, but my own opinion is that if a C/C++ passion project becomes successful, it burdens other people with yet another source of security vulnerabilities.

This is even more so for small projects that didn't have the decades of security hardening of Firefox/Chrome behind them, and now people go to these projects assuming their security is on par with Firefox/Chrome.

Why is your imaginary burden more important than someone's passion?

I find Rust people to be really annoying these days if you can't even write software in the language you want to write without being a burden to society.

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