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Ladybird aims to build a true new browser engine bit it's using big Google libraries like ANGLE and Skia to do it I don't know it's really fair to frame it as escaping Google completely like that.

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i'm not sure why you are being downvoted -- i can see angle as just a platform compatibility layer (in the same category as qt, which ladybird also uses), but skia (vector graphics) is definitely an important part of a rendering engine, which, coupled with the insane complexity of skia's implementation, does appear to jeopardize the whole 'web rendering engine from scratch' aim.

Well, the "engine" is pretty much from scratch but the project no longer believes in "being responsible for everything ourselves".

The goal with Ladybird is to be "independent" in the sense that nobody influences their decisions. However, they have no desire to be independent from a technology stand-point (other than being Open Source). In fact, they are talking about moving to Swift as their core language.

> The goal with Ladybird is to be "independent" in the sense that nobody influences their decisions. However, they have no desire to be independent from a technology stand-point (other than being Open Source).

Wouldn't a hard fork Blink instead of LibWeb still achieve this goal?

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