This Month in Ladybird – August 2026

I didn't expect to see Twitch working so soon!

Ladybird seems to have received a nice boost in momentum in the past two years. If you've ever watched one of Andreas videos on YouTube you'll find he's incredibly driven and knowledgeable in this area. I can imagine someone like him would go from being a "10x programmer" to a "100x programmer" with AI assistance. I am not entirely sure to what degree AI is being leveraged to speed up development, but I am indeed happier I might be able to ditch FF and begin using their browser soon.

few stupid questions as always so that i can become a smarter person

- what is the process of making a browser engine? what does the requirements look like

- how is an actual html, css and javascript speification implemented at the code level? are we painting an empty canvas or is it more complicated

- how is backward compatibility implemented?

- is all the code written in c++ or is it rust these days?

- how many people in a team do you need and how long would it take to write a browser engine from scratch

- what test cases do you consider for making something like this? how do you determine if you have handled all the outliers or not?

- how is mobile vs desktop handled at the browser engine code level?

I am watching this project with interest.

It's impressive that they're doing such titanic work. However, I'm highly skeptical that they can create a real rival to established browsers. I'm sorry for telling this, but Web standards are simply too complex and huge. Ladybird to Chrome / Firefox is almost like Wine / ReactOS to Windows, that last 3-5% of gap actually differentiates a normal browser from a browser that is a pain for web developers. And it's the most stubborn part to be fixed. Also, keep in mind that it hasn't much market, at least IE had a significant market that forced the developers to support it (with all the hate).

https://waspdev.com/articles/2025-04-07/will-there-be-a-new-...

I'm honestly relieved to see that I'm not the only one to test optimized/newer implementations against less optimized/older implementations. It's what I came up with after thinking about it for quite a while and I've been wondering why so little other software seems to do that. In my case, it's about serialization code. My test compare self-reported reader / writer states and serialized data.

Ladybird goes further by also running the engines in parallel in debug builds during normal use. They have a way to extract test cases from any bugs found that way.

So excited about this. Writing a real new web browser is a titanic project and Ladybird is making amazing progress

Really excited for alpha. When it hits I plan on using it for my daily driver to help them with usage stats and crash reports.

Are there other sites that get through ad blockers as well as Twitch?

> We also download over four parallel connections where possible.

I hope you can turn that off. It fragments the file and puts unnecessary load on the server.

This is such a nerdy newsletter I love it

If you ever said you'd pay for a browser that doesn't exploit you nows the chance - donate to the project!

Feels like the old "browser wars" days again. Between AI productivity, and Google losing the grace to bloat the web specs, I wouldn't be surprised if it starts to take market share away from other browsers as soon as it's stable.

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lol this is such a funny scam. these investors are so easy to fool

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