--- title: Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is... description: Cloudflare announces sponsorship of two independent open source projects: Ladybird, a new browser built completely from scratch with its own rendering and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/supporting-the-future-of-the-open-web-cloudflare-is-sponsoring-ladybird-and-omarchy-9od2akufx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy | daily.dev og:description: Cloudflare announces sponsorship of two independent open source projects: Ladybird, a new browser built completely from scratch with its own rendering and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/supporting-the-future-of-the-open-web-cloudflare-is-sponsoring-ladybird-and-omarchy-9od2akufx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/9oD2AkUfx.png og:image:alt: Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy **[Cloudflare](https://daily.dev/sources/cloudflare)** · 6 min read · 37 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary Cloudflare announces sponsorship of two independent open source projects: Ladybird, a new browser built completely from scratch with its own rendering and JavaScript engines, and Omarchy, an opinionated Arch Linux distribution designed for developers. Both projects aim to provide alternatives in ecosystems dominated by a few major players, with Ladybird challenging browser consolidation around Chromium and Omarchy making Linux more accessible for development work. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@brunoc** · 0 upvotes > I love Omarchy! However, I don't see any differences with other distributions. It's just a fancy UI with keyboard shortcuts. > > Developer's pain is not about UI or shortcuts, is about the complexity of software or running them locally (I.e. microservices), imho. **@fabianletsch** · 0 upvotes > Ladybird is so cool! Nice to see it getting traction and lots of funding <3 > > Its about time we get a good alternative to chromium. **@fullovellas** · 0 upvotes > I guess it's nice they're doin this, but why do they have to go and support the racist person's Linux distro specifically? --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#cloudflare](https://daily.dev/tags/cloudflare) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/supporting-the-future-of-the-open-web-cloudflare-is-sponsoring-ladybird-and-omarchy-9od2akufx) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/supporting-the-future-of-the-open-web-cloudflare-is-sponsoring-ladybird-and-omarchy-9od2akufx","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/supporting-the-future-of-the-open-web-cloudflare-is-sponsoring-ladybird-and-omarchy-9od2akufx"},"datePublished":"2025-09-22T13:09:04.117Z","dateModified":"2025-09-22T13:09:23.010Z","description":"Cloudflare announces sponsorship of two independent open source projects: Ladybird, a new browser built completely from scratch with its own rendering and...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/f2c8d0080e19e9ac66b208969dbe939a?_a=AQAEulh","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/f2c8d0080e19e9ac66b208969dbe939a?_a=AQAEulh","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Cloudflare","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Cloudflare","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/38522e1d11354cd6b7af66f9d4316735","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/cloudflare"},"commentCount":3,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/supporting-the-future-of-the-open-web-cloudflare-is-sponsoring-ladybird-and-omarchy-9od2akufx","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":37},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}],"keywords":"webdev,open-source,linux,cloudflare","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Cloudflare","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/cloudflare"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/supporting-the-future-of-the-open-web-cloudflare-is-sponsoring-ladybird-and-omarchy-9od2akufx","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"I love Omarchy! 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Nice to see it getting traction and lots of funding <3\nIts about time we get a good alternative to chromium.","datePublished":"2025-09-27T19:39:50.501Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/9oD2AkUfx#c-NkfazMZLr","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Fabian Letsch","url":"https://daily.dev/fabianletsch","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocKR6BVy_wn23EoOKq7-BlszlcXcLmASlnb7l-GtS-q1bePnkaJf=s96-c"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"I guess it’s nice they’re doin this, but why do they have to go and support the racist person’s Linux distro specifically?","datePublished":"2025-10-08T06:09:21.752Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/9oD2AkUfx#c-cgfmNoHj9","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Sergio","url":"https://daily.dev/fullovellas","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--Bj2N1mXh--/f_auto/v1728550341/avatars/avatar_HZochiv17H3I99HYI2Wma"}}]} ```