A brief update on the goals and plans behind the new Servo releases on GitHub.

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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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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The page just says it's equivalent to the nightlies. No indication how usable it is, what is/isn't working, what's next.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have no idea what to expect, thus my wish to know more

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Does this mean we can finally ditch all those memory-hungry Electron apps?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm curious about why they aren't stable yet. It's been a while. And there should be a lot incentives. Like cash. If one wants some.

    My guess is that something is not right with the project or the chosen technology. And that some other project will be first to deliver the new memory safe browser engine reference implementation. Maybe I'm just being grumpy.

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