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.
Someone could theoretically fork ladybird and strip out the AI, but it would be a lot of work.
it’s not that they are adding AI to the browser. it’s that they are letting an AI develop the browser
The port from C++ to Rust was assisted by an LLM. That’s different from “ChatGPT, write me a web browser”.
I cannot speak for the quality of that code, nor advocating for it, I merely want to make that distinction.
Not that much, there’s a git log, just found when they started doing AI and fork from then on