As I wrote in the announcement, I've already been working primarily on Ladybird for ~2 years already, so you have indeed been sponsoring Ladybird development by sponsoring me.
SerenityOS doesn't have a GitHub Sponsors itself, but it does use Polar to allow anyone to directly sponsor work on specific issues. See https://polar.sh/SerenityOS
And don't worry, there won't be some VC investment or big company buyout.
That reminds me of Torvalds' statement on Linux: "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu"
Doesn't having to close background applications constantly absolutely maddening ?
https://twitter.com/FOmmetje/status/1696266683756003451
or if you prefer:
On Windows there's also a setting to get each app to remember the selected keyboard layout (Set-WinLanguageBarOption -UseLegacySwitchMode) so I don't even need to switch most times.
And now let’s talk about .collect(toList())…
And records which look like ugly beans…
Java is the land of the verbose. But it can probably be solved with 9 extra characters on every line.