C#itheads - those are the guys that show up to the emulation project I work on insisting we would drastically improve by nuclear rewriting millions of lines of code into c# (or another language occasionaly).
It’s a 20ish yrs old c++ program, we’re never doing it but someone will show up trying to push the topic every couple of months.
Having trouble finding it now, but this is thier own post over on reddit (4 months old now)
How is it made? DuckDuckGo for Windows was built from the ground up by DuckDuckGo engineers with privacy, security, and simplicity front of mind. We are not forking Chromium (or anything else) and for web page rendering it calls the underlying operating system rendering API (in this case a Windows WebView2 call that utilizes the Blink rendering engine underneath). While this is the approach we’re taking now, that might change depending on the feedback we get from this round of testing. If there are changes to future versions, we will make that clear.
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I’m actually less confident having read this…Isn’t webview2 exactly what edge and chrome do? I now regret opening my mouth.
On windows, theres been more than one, but they said their knew one is all new code by thier own engineers instead of yet another chromium descendant, and I hope to god thats actually true.
Ty apreciate the correction
I was more reffering to what we lost compared to the old addon system tho.
(I don’t understand the downvoting of this reply, I at least understood why my previous one was getting them…)
Lets break the near monopoly they have and give what google wants the finger.
https://duckduckgo.com/windows
You know how nearly every browser is now based on chromium? And firefox when its not chromium, and even forefox adopted the extension limitations of chrome? Well I hear Duckduckgo’s new browser something new finally instead of based off an existing browser.
It doesn’t have extensions yet but those are coming and adblock is baked in.
Ed: my 1st downvotes of my time on the fediverse. <3 you to folks.
Well for starters alternatives to github would need to stop shitting the bed. I and my team left for gitlab at one point, then gitlab had that whole fiasco where they violated everyones rights and litteraly broke the law while their ideot cfo mouthed off in public posts at the company devs who questioned the move. Then after that they tried to remove “inactive” projects till a whistleblower leaked it and that blew up in their face.
Bitbucket ignored major issues with its platform for more tha 6 years including the most popularly demanded feature basic fucking search functionality.
The list goes on and we tried many things before being basically forced to ho back to github. But right now unless you can self host githubs the best of what’s available. If you self host I recommend gitea or gogs over shitlab who has proven they can’t be trusted.
I used starcraft references in mine till the project lead demanded I knock it off.
The protoss quotes were perfect.
Usually some excuse about being more accessible from someone that just doesn’t want to leave their own comfort zone - non professionals playing at being professional after coming across our github. See also: complaints about not having an installer download (strictly clone and build)