Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Watch Out Firefox u0026 Chrome: Here Comes Ladybird" video.

Being old enough to remember the internet in the 90's and 00's, I feel this deep in my soul.
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This is at least a small part of why I'm developing my own language. It's a first step in that direction and eventually I'd like to get into designing hardware. There are some preexisting open source chips that could be expanded upon as ideas, but absent funding it will take many years. I do still have a day job after all.
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It gets worse when you consider that the Wayland devs are the maintainers for X and could've spent 5 to 10 years getting to know X intimately and then fix the thing they thought was a flaw and make the world a better place without such pollution. Instead they've been squatting on the project to keep X from ever being fixed and have forced it to artificially die instead of giving the users an actual choice. Before someone mentions it, I'll point out that forking it would not preserve the project and at this point in time it's too late to supplant Wayland. Besides, forking is an awful solution when the original project has such a great name.
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@wisnoskij I'm not sure I get what you're saying. Are you claiming that you can't search the internet if ads are blocked? Or are you saying that the browser will not allow you to go to Google's website for some ideological reason? Hopefully you're not saying either because that would be incredibly dumb, but then I would need clarification on just what exactly it is that you actually mean here.
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@kpcraftster6580 Yep, been using it ever since it was Phoenix and was slower than molasses in February. Although, I didn't start maining it until Opera went Chromium and I still miss the old Opera.
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They do. There are several fork projects that use Firefox as a base. IceWeasel springs to mind first and you'll have to look up an exhaustive list on your own.
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Why do you think that?
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I admire your optimism even if I don't share it. However, what I really want to discuss is your pronunciation of Mozilla like you're trying to say mozzarella. Is that intentional? I kind of hope it is because they deserve the insult given their politics. I'm starting to suspect that maybe the reason YouTube is only allowing me to have 360p is because of my political viewpoint and not because I'm using Firefox since I've heard from numerous others that they don't have that limitation while also using Firefox. If this is true, then some things may need to change, and I don't mean the browser I'm using, at least not yet.
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@Manley410 If you were old enough to use the internet back then, you'd get it.
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I keep being reminded that VBScript used to be a thing on the web and I kind of miss ActionScript, but only because of Flash games, not because it was a good language. Not to mention that every browser had a plugin for Java. Now, we only get JavaScript and it's quite frankly one of the worst languages in existence. Even VBScript was a better language. Can you imagine how cool it would be if we could easily write a program in C and "compile for web" and done? And please don't claim emscripten is that, because it's not.
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@zyxzevn Even though emscripten is a horrible choice, it has shown us that C can work. Yeah, it would need some kind of local compiler and/or interpreter, but those have been done numerous times and it's just a matter of a browser incorporating one. Which is actually kind of my point. We need a plugin system for browsers like in the olden days so that multiple language runtimes could be used and efficiently.
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If they do that it'll corrupt the project faster. I'm not saying C++ is perfect, but it's still a better choice than Rust, and not infested with a mental virus.
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