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- Louis Rossmann people gave another $200k

- hw acceleration is working in Vulkan and Metal

- Ladybird supports Web Assembly through the LibWasm library, which is separate from the JavaScript implementation in LibJS. ... As of this month, LibWasm has hit a 100% pass rate on the Wasm spec test suite!

- - Contributors Diego Frias and Ali Mohammad Pur have put in excellent work fixing bugs and implementing missing SIMD features in LibWasm to push us from approximately 60% back at the beginning of June to 100% of tests passing late this month.

I'm astonished. These people have a legitimate shot of breaking up Google's web oligopoly. In my opinion, Ladybird is currently the most important thing happening in the software ecosystem. Yes, I mean it.

They have no chance of breaking up Google’s web oligopoly. You could have your own browser and supports everything Chrome does and it still wouldn’t matter. What matters is getting people to use your browser, which is (so far) done in only one of two ways: control an existing platform so you can be the default (iOS, macOS, Windows’s, Android, etc) or spend a ridiculous amount of money on advertising (ex: Chrome on Windows). The implementation of the browser is irrelevant.

Not true. Firefox rose out of the ashes of Netscape pretty much by word of mouth and nerds installing it on other people's PCs.

Another world is possible.

That worked because IE was a pile of burning trash.

Chrome & co are not.

It’s a different world.

Chrome and Firefox are privacy nightmares and everyone knows it.

That has zero to do with how well they "just work" for the average user, which wasn't the case with IE6/7 back in the day.

Lots of stuff "back in the day" simply required IE and you just had to have it. And for people who needed stuff to "just work", IE generally did because it was the most popular browser in the world. I don't recall Firefox or Netscape ever being the majority browser.

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