Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows and open-sourcing both so the community can carry them forward. Our small team will now focus fully on making Orion for macOS and iOS faster, more stable, and…

13 points•pentagrama•about 3 hours ago•3 comments•

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aucisson_masqueabout 2 hours ago
I found the move to release Orion on Linux and windows weird.

If you were Google and you wanted to spread your search engine to the world, it would be fine but such a small company. And the market share would still have been abysmal on the platforms.

Great thing that they release it before abandoning it, truely a great move !

And hopefully they keep making it better on macOS and iOS.

izacus2 minutes ago
> If you were Google and you wanted to spread your search engine to the world, it would be fine but such a small company.

I've done successful, safe cross-platform development at several small companies and it goes just fine. But you do need capable hands at it and some developers really worked their best to sabotage the work platforms due to sheer laziness.

Size of company is irrelevant, not hiring fanboys is the most important part at this process. I wonder how Kagi managed to fail at that.

JumpCrisscrossabout 2 hours ago
Orion is my daily driver on my Mac. Frankly just don’t want them to break it while making it more and more secure.
qmarchiabout 2 hours ago
Sad that the other two platforms won't have the same stewardship as Orion on macOS. Especially since we're likely to see drift from the core WebKit implementation between them now.

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