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I'm not 100% sure. A lot of work is being done on Ladybird, but a lot of money is coming from sponsorships specifically for Ladybird as well.

When it comes to direct contributions to the project, I'm pretty sure only Andreas is working fulltime on generic SerenityOS+ projects. He recently made a series of videos about adding a JIT to Javascript which I found to be quite a typical SerenityOS style diversion, like Jakt had been for a while before that.

However, that's just the stuff you find on Youtube. The project itself is receiving commits all over the place: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/commits/master

Most of the OS advancements have stopped coming from Andreas for a while now, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. There's a very active community working on SerenityOS and the various applications and subsystems within it. The steady stream of commits just isn't as visible and doesn't provide as much progress as three full-time programmers working on the browser does.

Unfortunately, a lot of the work that gets committed to SerenityOS seems to be the result of whatever video Andreas published last. I do hope Andreas switches back to SerenityOS work soon, but I imagine it'll be hard for him to drop such a cool and interesting project.




It's definitely not dead yet, nor is its fate sealed, but I am somewhat pessimistic about it long term. I would love to be wrong, though, and realistically it's a bit early to make any definitive statements about long term shifting priorities vs a temporary shift in focus. And obviously one developer will never make or break a project like this, but I think an important role that Andreas has/had is to be an advocate, recruiter, as well as just leadership to steer the ship a bit. Serenity needs to grow and gain new developers, and I fear that it might not be able to do that without a figurehead.




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