This Month in Ladybird – October 2026(ladybird.org)
43 pointsby BitPiratean hour ago4 comments
  • quuxan hour ago
    Ladybird has been really shaping up over the last month or so, I pull and build the latest bits every morning and use it for low stakes web browsing (HN, news sites, reddit, youtube, blogs, etc.) and it's getting very close to the point where I forget that it's a pre-alpha.

    Very exciting to watch a completely new browser/browser engine come together. Reminds me of the early days of Mozilla and Gecko

    Posted with Ladybird :)

  • CitrusFruitsan hour ago
    Ladybird is such an exciting project, really excited to try it out for day to day browsing when they get into Alpha.
  • mempkoan hour ago
    Honest question for people. I'm a C++ dev and I'm seeing a lot of moves to rust. Everyone is using agents to move stuff to rust and I tried it myself. The amount of insane hardrive space usage (over 90GB of build artifacts that constantly need cleanup) is that normal? What am I doing wrong. Are people seeing advantages after a move to rust that wasn't there in C++ (assuming no new features). Like is your project better after moving to rust in obvious ways?
    • pornel4 minutes ago
      It's expected. Cargo has very conservative cache cleanup (once per month IIRC).

      There's incremental compilation cache that generates lots of churn (although Rust's compilation unit is a crate, "queries" in the compiler are cached individually, creating many cache entries per function per type).

      The other of the disk space is debug info, because abstractions that optimize down to zero runtime code still carry all of their source-level debug info.

    • andoowhy4 minutes ago
      It's normal, but they're working on it:

      https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/18/reducing-t...

    • slopinthebag31 minutes ago
      90gb? i've ran cargo clean on a single project and reclaimed over 700gb before.

      but i still love rust ofc

      • ASalazarMX17 minutes ago
        Jesus, that makes the JavaScript ecosystem look moderate by comparison!
    • marsven_42231 minutes ago
      [dead]
  • pmkary17 minutes ago
    As far as I understand, while the world is burning, Mamdani is bringing rainbows to NY everyday, and while everyone is losing their minds over AI, the Ladybird team is making history without giving a damn about anything.