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  • Anyone can fork the engine.

    Even the Linux kernel is not as much of a beast that a browser engine is, I’ve seen estimates that a dedicated small team could build a new modern Linux kernel from scratch and generally usable in about 2-3 years

    A browser engine takes years more, again, ladybird’s engine is built from scratch, and it’s currently in year 3 targeting an alpha release in 2026 or Year 4. With it projected to be generally usable in 2028 a full 6 years later.

    And there are actually a couple different independent kernels, so no it’s not a monopoly


  • Ladybird has some serious backing and employed developers working on their engine and has been worked on for years (Ladybird started life as the SerenityOS browser)

    And even after all that time and money, it’s still not even ready for general use. Their roadmap has them having a public release ready in 2028 iirc

    And fragmentation? Really? LMAO there needs to be some competition in browser engines, if there was we wouldn’t be in this mess to begin with.

    There are only 2 modern, open source and fully working engines. Chromium and FF, that’s not fragmentation, that’s a duopoly