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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ladybird was born from SerenityOS, which is a hobbyist unix-like (or POSIX compliant?) OS that simply aimed to do things "from the ground up". It just happened that they needed to make a browser, and the response was to make one from scratch.

From there it seemed to have brought a lot of attention organically to the point where it can stand on its own, but originally it was never intended to be a "third browser engine" from its inception.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That actually makes the most sense. So similar to how Linux was started.