Ladybird browser update (January 2025) [video]

It is truly impressive how fast Ladybird is progressing. Running an app as complex and intensive as GMail is crazy. It was not all that long ago that it was impressive just to be able to read and post to Hacker News.

Also, while Andreas no doubt has killer hardware, it is impressive how fast pages are being rendered.

They are still saying “Alpha” in 2026. And already, at the dawn of 2025, the have a more conformant JavaScript implementation than Chrome and Firefox. That tells you something about the standard they are trying to meet.

I have not heard them mention Swift lately. If they are still going to make that jump, o wonder when. Let’s hope it does not distract or slow them down too much.