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    [–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago) (1 children)

    with mandatory male pronouns for users in the documentation.

    (and no politics allowed!)

    notethis issue was resolved eventually by another dev; ~~afaik~~ the lead dev ~~stopped commenting on it after he~~ closed a PR and said people who wanted to remove the docs' implied assumption of users' maleness were "advertising personal politics".

    edit: ok, i went and checked, here are the details:

    [–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

    can I get some context for this, what is the reference to? I stopped caring about new browsers and now just use Firefox πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

    [–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 points 29 minutes ago

    it's about the ladybird browser. i edited my comment to add details.

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

    That's not controlled by Google...

    It is also important to note that the license is still foss and GPL compatible. In the future they could made it GPL.

    [–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 15 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    Not only C++ but also Swift, which just feels strange

    Why build a new browser in C++ when safer and more modern languages are available?

    Ladybird started as a component of the SerenityOS hobby project, which only allows C++. The choice of language was not so much a technical decision, but more one of personal convenience. Andreas was most comfortable with C++ when creating SerenityOS, and now we have almost half a million lines of modern C++ to maintain.

    However, now that Ladybird has forked and become its own independent project, all constraints previously imposed by SerenityOS are no longer in effect.

    We have evaluated a number of alternatives, and will begin incremental adoption of Swift as a successor language, once Swift version 6 is released.

    Swift is a pretty fully fledged systems language at this point ... however, it's far from tried and tested for use cases like this and cross platform support is still garbage, so still a pretty questionable choice.

    [–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 hours ago

    that is actually really goofy, didn't know about that

    [–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 19 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

    Everyone knows links2 is the best browser.

    #links2gang

    [–] MITM0@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

    Is it that difficult to implement a CopyLeft licence ? Well we do have Servo (A modular browser engine) in development & SeaMonkey is a thing too (Which is an entire internet-application suite)

    [–] rickdg@lemmy.world 30 points 7 hours ago

    Let’s see how ladybird writes docs in the future. Will they assume the user is a man and shut down any corrections for being political?

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