19th February 2026 - Link Blog
LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Abandon Swift adoption (via) Back in August 2024 the Ladybird browser project announced an intention to adopt Swift as their memory-safe language of choice.
As of this commit it looks like they've changed their mind:
Everywhere: Abandon Swift adoption
After making no progress on this for a very long time, let's acknowledge it's not going anywhere and remove it from the codebase.
Update 23rd February 2025: They've adopted Rust instead.
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