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Ladybird Browser adopts Rust, with help from AI (ladybird.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Someone could theoretically fork ladybird and strip out the AI, but it would be a lot of work.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not that much, there's a git log, just find when they started doing AI and fork from just before then

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago

common ladybird l

[–] Fitik@fedia.io -4 points 1 week ago

Good riddance on ai, even if people there dislike it, ai-assisted code is already a norm in a lot of places. However, the decision seems confusing to me, there's already a Rust based web engine (Servo), I'm confused about what's the distinction between them now?

[+] unpossum@sh.itjust.works -10 points 1 week ago (5 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.

[–] Trilogy3452@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think it's important to note that human review is not = quality always, it's case by case and a lot of times the nuance and potential problems don't appear until the code has been fiddled with manually in my experience.

Basically saying that it depends on how it was used, but my hunch is using AI for new languages for production use without an expert to help is a bad use case since the new comer has no idea what nuances exist. Unless that's not the case here

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah, this part of the community is as insufferable as the overly enthusiastic vibe coders

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And the people complaining about "insufferable" critics of AI, and assuming all criticism is "knee-jerk", are themselves contributing to the cycle of negativity.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

no shit, pick any post that mentions AI here and see who are the first ones to comment every single time.

If you don't want a "cycle of negativity", maybe let's not throw rocks at anything for just bringing up the topic?

how's acknowledging this herd behavior contributing to it. Some of us are also tired of reading the same crap in the comments.

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