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It’s not that difficult to build a browser, but it’s very difficult to build your own browser engine, and kudos to Ladybird devs for that undertaking!


Yes. Never been easier to build a browser than today with great open source engines. Writing an engine from scratch is the hard part. Extremely labour-intensive to build and then maintain. People usually conflate both.

edit: clarify


Browser = browser engine. Without it it's just a collection of extensions.


This is oversimplifying a lot. Two browsers can support the same extension system and still be quite different (e.g., Firefox vs. Orion).




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