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https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation#Rust_Components is probably the most up to date

There’s things like finding an agreement over https://uspto.report/TM/87796973 and setting up everything in https://servo.org/governance/ . And on the technical side, although it’s…

I don’t recall that disk size was ever something we’ve optimized or tracked. Why is it important?

The C API has JNI bindings, which is relevant to Android. https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/ports/libsimplese...

Setting priorities and direction is the responsibility of the Technical Steering Committee: https://servo.org/governance/ The plan is to later have a Board responsible for financia…

Despite the name the Linux kernel is only one of many projects hosted by the Linux Foundation these days. Browser engine to operating system relationships haven’t changed with this…

The Linux Foundation is a legal and fiscal host for many projects, not just the kernel: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects/

For what it’s worth, these days WebRender is mostly being worked on by the Firefox graphics team at Mozilla.

Yes, I've had Rust code and C++/mbed code in the same program. But C++ is still an issue, I wrote a C wrapper for the one C++ method I was using. Doing so for all of mbed would be …

Looks like it would help get libcore for your target more easily, yes. Still, I'd like similar functionality to get in standard Cargo eventually.

Is it important, when there is no other thread or process that could use any resource you're holding?

I now have a "more real" panic_fmt in the repository: #[lang = "panic_fmt"] extern fn panic_fmt(details: ::core::fmt::Arguments, file: &'static str, line: u32) -> ! { println!("Pan…

Mach is what you interact with when doing stuff in Servo, but all the build-* sub-commands end up calling Cargo, which is what does the heavy lifting. The typical `./mach build` co…

Servo does this by default. (People who tried Servo but don’t otherwise develop in Rust didn’t like having random files in their home directory.)

Short answer: `extern crate foo;` doesn’t work if `foo` is an indirect dependency. So you cannot accidentally use something without declaring it in `Cargo.toml`. Longer answer: whe…

It was a happy day when Servo ditched a big hairy pile of makefiles + git submodules and switched to Cargo :)

Patrick refers to parallel layout here: in a text with many paragraphs for example, the contents of each paragraph can be laid out in parallel with other paragraphs. Then you only …

If you want to preserve unpaired surrogates that are hex-encoded in JSON strings, WTF-8 could help. But it’s unclear to me that you should : https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#sec…

That’s roughly how UTF-8 works, with some tweaks to make it self-synchronizing. (That is, you can jump to the middle of a stream and find the next code point by looking at no more …

No. This is an internal implementation detail, not to be used on the Web. As to draconian error handling, that’s what XHTML is about and why it failed. Just define a somewhat sensi…

On further thought I agree. https://github.com/SimonSapin/wtf-8/commit/51abeef717a161ba9...

Opinions: no it’s not worth the hassle. Yes, "fixed length" is misguided. O(1) indexing of code points is not that useful because code points are not what people think of as "chara…

See also http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6919

Every term is linked to its definition. https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/#terminology Does this help?