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  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I will never understand why people name stuff just by opening an English dictionary and simply picking a word.

    Also why start a browser with C++? Google and Mozilla don’t employ nincompoops to work on their browsers and still say 70% of their CVEs are due to memory management errors from C++. Instead of learning from that, they start yet another browser in C++.

    In theory it great that this org wants to make an alternative, and probably being funded by a millionaire (billionaire?) can’t hurt, but C++ man? Come on…

    Anti Commercial-AI license

    • constableunstable@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      I will never understand why people name stuff just by opening an English dictionary and simply picking a word.> Naming stuff is hard.

      • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Yeah, but not that hard.

        • La bird
        • BB.Bird (baby bird)
        • Birdanzo
        • Lanzango
        • Chicbee
        • Elburd (el bird)
        • Birday
        • Bowsun
        • Baysen
        • Lirsi
        • Slay BC

        You can even put effort into it and look for translations in other languages, combine them, use a colloquialism not found in the standard dictionary, or so many other things.

        Anti Commercial-AI license

    • Zier@fedia.io
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      3 days ago

      Agree with naming laziness. Ladybird is the name of a Lady Bug. Sick to death of things being named after animals. It’s a computer program not a living entity, it has no gender either. Even a nonsense word would be preferable to this mess. Lets call it Zalyo. No one else has that made up word, easy to search.

    • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      From.the FAQ

      Why build a new browser in C++ when safer and more modern languages are available? Ladybird started as a component of the SerenityOS hobby project, which only allows C++. The choice of language was not so much a technical decision, but more one of personal convenience. Andreas was most comfortable with C++ when creating SerenityOS, and now we have almost half a million lines of modern C++ to maintain.

      However, now that Ladybird has forked and become its own independent project, all constraints previously imposed by SerenityOS are no longer in effect. We are actively evaluating a number of alternatives and will be adding a mature successor language to the project in the near future. This process is already quite far along, and prototypes exist in multiple languages.