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In my tests, it's pretty unusable atm. Probably half of websites render very wrong and servo crashes nonstop.
It cannot crash its written in Rust.
Don't you dare joke on this website
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> First off, Swift has both memory & data race safety (as of v6) But v6 is not released yet, right?
> > First off, Swift has both memory & data race safety (as of v6) > But v6 is not released yet, right As of Swift 5 there is zero data race protection and the process model (DispatchQueues if memory serves) is woefully. No advantage over fork and much more convoluted I am well clear of the Apple development world now (thank goodness) but the tools were of very poor quality, albeit very nice looking, as of this time…
Xcode 16 rewrote much of the autocomplete behaviors and the new engine is blazing fast in terms of UI blockage compared with 15, and stable. Everything to do with tagging etc not just completion itself.
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There's a lot more to a browser than the JS engine. And in general, we would want all of the browsers JS engines to be essentially the same. I think starting with an existing engine is the most logical approach
They plan to abstract it (work is underway) to make it even possible to use chromium's js engine. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-JavaScript-Engine-Modula...
Interesting. Kinda reminds me of the 360 Safe browser that's one of the most popular browsers used in China. It can render a website using WebKit, Blink, or Trident (Internet Explorer)
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Which isn't that surprising given it has been underway for much longer, and as built with people with actual browser engine experience. Ladybird isn't that bad in comparison.
libweb was started in 2019. Anyway, I’m really sour that 90% of the discussion on a thread about the incredible project that is Servo are wasted on Ladybird.
Engage with the 10% then! You're only contributing to your perceived problem
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#216It'd be nice if people stopped recommending "yet another new and exciting package manager for Windows" that you have no idea of whether you can trust it or not. Git, Python, llvm, cmake, and curl all have perfectly normal windows installers available from their own websites, and if you're a programmer who has to, or chooses to work on Window, it's a good bet you already have either most or all of these already instal…
I totally agree you guys.
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This is wrong. Servo development has picked up steam after merged into Linux Foundation, and multiple increasingly used Rust projects are all betting on Servo for the long term: Dioxus, Tauri, some others I forgot.
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Don’t think this really fits in with HN guidelines.
Seriously, check out https://servo.org , they post monthly updates and the progress seems great. And their repo, too - too bad GitHub can’t display code frequency because there’s too many commits in the project.
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#218It'd be nice if people stopped recommending "yet another new and exciting package manager for Windows" that you have no idea of whether you can trust it or not. Git, Python, llvm, cmake, and curl all have perfectly normal windows installers available from their own websites, and if you're a programmer who has to, or chooses to work on Window, it's a good bet you already have either most or all of these already instal…
That was my favorite part of this (especially since the build didn't work). Whatever scoop is, it actually worked and installed those things without any complaint... might be my new favorite package manager
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I'd really rather not, personally. All my Swift experiences have been fighting the abysmal compilation times.
That's a bit of an issue in Rust world, too.
Swift is pretty next level compared to Rust. Rust does seem like a fairly constant level of slow and linearly slows down as the project gets larger. Swift tends to have huge degradations on seemingly innocent changes that make the type inference go off the rails. Although at least if you spend the time to track these down you can fix the worst offenders.
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