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I don't know. This is speculation on my side.

But they recently announced funding as a non-profit, as a few days later, they switch to Swift.

Following the money is a good way to explain seemingly irrational decisions, at least as a first order approximation.



Moving to a non profit, forking from SerenityOS and (as a result of that) no longer being tied to C++ all happened at the same time.

It's possible Apple could be paying them to develop a rival browser but... why?




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