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Servo 0.0.1 released! (servo.org)
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[–] 33 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I clicked the link and read the site and still have no idea what that is

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Servo is a web browser rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.

    Essentially it is an alternative to chromium based web browser engines. The other (major) web browser engines are WebKit for iOS and Gecko for Firefox. You can see a list at Wikipedia.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Servo is a web browser rendering engine written in rust. It was originally started by Mozilla but then abandoned

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why did they abandon it? I thought they merged it in a while back.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    At Mozilla, Servo was basically a research branch that tried new approaches to push performance. Mozilla would merge parts from servo that brought significant performance boost. But when they were pushed to cut budget, instead of lowering executive pay, they shut down the servo team.

    Servo, then spun off as independent project.

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