The Ladybird browser project shifts to Rust

The Ladybird browser project has announced a move tothe Rust programming language:

When we originally evaluated Rust back in 2024, we rejected itbecause it's not great at C++ style OOP. The web platform objectmodel inherits a lot of 1990s OOP flavor, with garbage collection,deep inheritance hierarchies, and so on. Rust's ownership model isnot a natural fit for that.

But after another year of treading water, it's time to make thepragmatic choice. Rust has the ecosystem and the safety guaranteeswe need. Both Firefox and Chromium have already begun introducingRust into their codebases, and we think it's the right choice forLadybird too.

Large language models are being used to translate existing code.