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19th February 2026

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.

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