This Month in Ladybird – October 2026

mempko

Honest question for people. I'm a C++ dev and I'm seeing a lot of moves to rust. Everyone is using agents to move stuff to rust and I tried it myself. The amount of insane hardrive space usage (over 90GB of build artifacts that constantly need cleanup) is that normal? What am I doing wrong. Are people seeing advantages after a move to rust that wasn't there in C++ (assuming no new features). Like is your project better after moving to rust in obvious ways?

CitrusFruits

Ladybird is such an exciting project, really excited to try it out for day to day browsing when they get into Alpha.

quux

Ladybird has been really shaping up over the last month or so, I pull and build the latest bits every morning and use it for low stakes web browsing (HN, news sites, reddit, youtube, blogs, etc.) and it's getting very close to the point where I forget that it's a pre-alpha. Very exciting to watch a completely new browser/browser engine come together. Reminds me of the early days of Mozilla and Gecko Posted with Ladybird :)

moron4hire

Would love to see where all the folks from 5 years ago, breathlessly declaring it's futile to start a new browser project, are now and what they are doing with their lives.

anthk

>Flatpak It was about time. BTW, when this gem uses EGui instead of QT6 (nothing against QT, but once everything uses Rust, it will be no reason to keep it) it will shine.

iamnothere

Wow, they now beat Safari in tests passed. Catching up to Firefox too. Lots of momentum here.

arecsu

"[...] as far as we know, no other browser can do this today. Here’s a text animation while JavaScript blocks the main thread in 1.5 second bursts, with Ladybird in the top left:" This is amazing!! I'm really surprised no other browser is able to do this. Is there an implicit "security" issue with it, or maybe standardization when it comes to keeping some values from DOM-Javascript in sync? Or simply an oversight in their part? In any case, congratulations to Ladybird's team. Computers are so much more capable of raw performance and computing, and it's nice that some developers out there do care heavily about it

KingMob

I will stop using the web entirely before I use anything made by Charlie Kirk-praising, DHH-defending, white supremacist-retweeting Andreas Kling.