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Servo’s new home

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Re: Servo’s new home

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Post by baq »

With the growing concern about browser monopoly and engine monopoly going against everything the web was intended to be, are you planning on acquiring funding from government grants? EU at least used to give out money to interesting projects, is there hope for servo to get some?

Re: Servo’s new home

#33

Post by pqoek »

exikyut wrote: post #18

Wow, this is awesome. - Mozilla engineering finally gets the green light to beat Chrome through a from-scratch rendering stack - This skunkworks initative popularizes the world's first viable C++ contender and interesting "mainstreamable" programming language - Manglement suddenly lays off the teams responsible for both projects (Rust and Servo) - Some awesome person from the trenches convinces said manglement to rel…

Why is Mozilla not betting on Rust anymore?

Re: Servo’s new home

#35

Post by baq »

pqoek wrote: post #33
exikyut wrote: post #18

Wow, this is awesome. - Mozilla engineering finally gets the green light to beat Chrome through a from-scratch rendering stack - This skunkworks initative popularizes the world's first viable C++ contender and interesting "mainstreamable" programming language - Manglement suddenly lays off the teams responsible for both projects (Rust and Servo) - Some awesome person from the trenches convinces said manglement to rel…

Why is Mozilla not betting on Rust anymore?

the CEO needs a new house.

Re: Servo’s new home

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Post by simias »

lastontheboat wrote: post #2

We've been cagey about this over the months since the Servo team at Mozilla was disbanded, since there were various moving pieces that needed to fall into place. We're excited about the possibility for Servo to continue growing and evolving in its new home, though!

What's the plan exactly? Will there be a Servo browser that integrates the servo rendering engine with some open source components (for instance from Firefox, WebKit or Chromium) that will let us use the engine stand-alone, or is it "just" going to be an engine for embedding in third-party programs?

The former seems like it would be a huge amount of work, but if it's the latter I fear for the long term survival of the project because it's going to be hard to build a community around such a project IMO.

Or is there a possibility that Firefox will try to integrate Servo even if it's developed outside of Mozilla? Seems unlikely to me.

Re: Servo’s new home

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Post by paulrouget »

edoceo wrote: post #16

Awesome! I've been tire kicking their nightlys. I was thinking about building a "browser" but really mean just wrapping an engine. With the shakeup at M I was nervous that Servo would die, it's got a lot of promise. This is great news. Now, thoughts on a UI framework for Rust?

My personal opinion is that, for a servo based browser, it's probably better to just use UWP/C++ on Windows, C/GTK on Linux, and SwiftUI on Mac, and just embed Servo via its C-API layer.

Rust shine when it comes to building a safe and fast web engine. For the OS "glue" code, I would stick to whatever is best for each platform.

Re: Servo’s new home

#38

Post by vorpalhex »

pqoek wrote: post #33
exikyut wrote: post #18

Wow, this is awesome. - Mozilla engineering finally gets the green light to beat Chrome through a from-scratch rendering stack - This skunkworks initative popularizes the world's first viable C++ contender and interesting "mainstreamable" programming language - Manglement suddenly lays off the teams responsible for both projects (Rust and Servo) - Some awesome person from the trenches convinces said manglement to rel…

Why is Mozilla not betting on Rust anymore?

Mozilla has decided to move to a different mission less about improving the web and more about enacting things that make them money, so they can continue to pay a large CEO salary and push policy objectives against free speech.

Unfortunately Mozilla seemed to go from "awesome" to really disappointing in a very short time window.

Re: Servo’s new home

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Post by simias »

pqoek wrote: post #33
exikyut wrote: post #18

Wow, this is awesome. - Mozilla engineering finally gets the green light to beat Chrome through a from-scratch rendering stack - This skunkworks initative popularizes the world's first viable C++ contender and interesting "mainstreamable" programming language - Manglement suddenly lays off the teams responsible for both projects (Rust and Servo) - Some awesome person from the trenches convinces said manglement to rel…

Why is Mozilla not betting on Rust anymore?

What even is Mozilla betting on at this point?
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