Servo and Ladybird are both nowhere near close to daily drivable (at least for the general public), however Servos been making a ton of progress after their restart and seems much more like an actual chrome competitor then Ladybird. So why do I never see it talked about while Ladybird seems to be the next big topic here?

Keep in mind I do think these are both amazing projects and I really hope they can co-exist

Edit: Looks like the main reasoning is Servo’s focus on being embedded while Ladybird promises a fully functional browser

  • kbal@fedia.io
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    1 year ago

    In most parts of the fediverse, if you see more talk about Ladybird than Servo it means you’re following the wrong people.

  • Midnitte@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Funny enough that Servo was started by Mozilla.

    It uses Rust, which sort of makes me want to root for it since it would be fast, and ironic if it were to take off…

  • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    Servo is a web rendering engine, not a browser.

    Also, Ladybird is newer, and therefore news to more people. That, along with the fact that it only recently became a stand-alone project, could explain why you see more talk about it lately.

    • lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Ladybird to be a browser must also be a rendering engine tho? The biggest compliant ive heard of Firefox vs Chrome is that Firefox isnt ment to be embedded, which makes Servo more of a chrome competitor than Ladybird which would just replace Firefoxes role rather then be something better. Not that I’m again their focus on being a browser, if that focus can get them to a useable state quicker

  • millie@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Lot of spam about a browser developed by someone who sees using anything other than masculine pronouns in documentation as excessively political.

    • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      They have a functioning “light weight” browser people can use for testing. And honestly, wrapping all the browser features around an engine, is very much the easy part. That’s why there are so many browsers with so few rendering engines.

  • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Ladybird is new and some people seem to think it’ll be useable for normal desktop usage in the coming years. Servo is 12 years old and markets itself as an embedded browser and thus it’s understood that it won’t catch up to Firefox and Chromium.

    I have no idea why people think Ladybird would be the saviour independent browser when there’s Mozilla with Firefox failing at exaty that. How would Ladybird even finance itself? Ads? Then you’ve got the Mozilla Firefox situation again.

    • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      One thing Ladybird has going for it is that they declared they’re not implementing JIT (a feature I disable whenever I install Firefox). I think if that mindset extends to other elements, it might have the potential to get a functioning product to market faster than Servo.