The Ladybird browser project shifts to Rust

Date:
Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:20:59 +0000

Description:
The Ladybird browser project has announced a move to
the Rust programming language: When we originally evaluated Rust back in
2024, we rejected it
because it's not great at C++ style OOP. The web platform object
model inherits a lot of 1990s OOP flavor, with garbage collection,
deep inheritance hierarchies, and so on. Rust's ownership model is
not a natural fit for that. But after another year of treading water, it's time to make the
pragmatic choice. Rust has the ecosystem and the safety guarantees
we need. Both Firefox and Chromium have already begun introducing
Rust into their codebases, and we think it's the right choice for
Ladybird too. Large language models are being used to translate existing code.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1059812/


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