Their choice is actually Swift and by the time there's a stable release all the C++ code is intended to have been replaced.

Time will tell if that will be a big problem or if more mainstream ways of doing things are better for a project intended to run everywhere!

I remember they mentioning Swift a few months ago, but currently I don’t see any swift in their github repo, didn’t checked other branches besides main.

> all the C++ code is intended to have been replaced.

That is not their goal at all, I don't where you heard that. Swift is currently stalled due to some blockers listed on their issue tracker, but any usage of it will be in safety-critical areas first and not a complete rewrite of existing code.

Very excited for Ladybird and Servo. I wonder if a good thing that may emerge from this era of LLM code-support capabilities is that its more feasible to support alternative browser codebases even as they get into the multi-million lines of code.

They're announced they want to move to Swift to combat some of this.

Yep, but there was another post mentioning half a million lines of C++ code so far.

While the C++ interop in Swift seems sane with Clang being embedded I wonder how much time/energy they will have to actually move significant parts if it's so large already.

No they didn't. It's C++ because the primary author was most familiar with C++ and only allowed C++ in SerenityOS.

https://ladybird.org/#:~:text=The%20choice%20of%20language%2...

That was the answer I remember Andreas give in a update video to answer the "why not rust" question.

That doesn't really make sense to me either. Even if WebIDL is inheritance based, that is going to be processed automatically so you can easily use codegen to make the resulting interface nice in Rust, in a way that would be relatively difficult if you were hand-writing it.