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Ladybird Browser adopts Rust, with help from AI (ladybird.org)
submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 8 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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[–] unpossum@sh.itjust.works -2 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

Good grief, the irrational ai kneejerk hate in this community is insane. This seems like a perfect use case - a code base with good test coverage and well defined output expectations, where a human has guided the translation and checked the results. The human in question has saved a lot of time. And still all the comments are “hurr durr slop amirite”. SMH fucking head.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Hes not even using the rust part either. Its still using c++. It's just being developed on the side.

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