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They just abandoned the previous project of moving to Swift.
There’s also the issue of trying to manage a project rewrite while the project itself is under continuing feature development. Many projects have failed at that in the past because the rewriting effort is so much of a moving target and because a team split between the sides can develop a lot of friction and conflict points.
I really want them to succeed. I think it’s pretty amazing what they’ve achieved so far with Ladybird, just as a proof that it is indeed possible to write a brand new browser engine from scratch on web standards. I also think it’s extremely important that we have some mitigation against abusive behaviour by Google & Apple, however small it may be with a hobbyist browser like Ladybird.