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Ladybird Browser adopts Rust, with help from AI (ladybird.org)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Lobsters.

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.

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[–] TheOneCurly@feddit.online 100 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah seems about right for this project. I really wanted this to be a serious browser, but nothing about this dude is serious.

Also I know he backed this statement up with much better testing but these AI brainrot things people say kill me: "I ran multiple passes of adversarial review, asking different models to analyze the code for mistakes and bad patterns."

[–] XLE@piefed.social 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

"I coded this with hundreds of handcrafted AI prompts."

"That sounds hazardous, but did you test it?"

"I had multiple AIs test it!"

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 28 minutes ago

artisan AI prompts. we are supposed to be paying extra!

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 day ago

Let us all hope Servo does not go down the same path.

[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 23 hours ago

It is one thing to use coding agents to produce code. It is another to trust it on reviewing it.

This reminds me of the C compiler written by Claude Code, which was compiling everything, except printf("Hello from CCC!\n");

[–] thenose@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You’re not the first I hear saying his bad news/not serious. Afaik I didn’t hear a thing about him until ladybird. What did I missed?