Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI - Ladybird
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We're adopting Rust as our C++ successor language, and using AI agents to accelerate the transition.

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We’ve been searching for a memory-safe programming language to replace C++ in Ladybird for a while now. We previously explored Swift, but the C++ interop never quite got there, and platform support outside the Apple ecosystem was limited. Rust is a different story. The ecosystem is far more mature for systems programming, and many of our contributors already know the language. Going forward, we are rewriting parts of Ladybird in Rust.

    • Venia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      23 days ago

      Oh now that’s interesting. I’ve always wondered (not knowing much about how they’re made) if it would be possible to make a desktop compositor for Linux that simply uses HTML and CSS. One could even natively embed local pages in it.

      • CameronDevEnglish
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        23 days ago

        Gnome shell uses JS and CSS (i beleive anyway), and the w11 start menu is supposedly react native, so I think the answer is definitely yes.