Servo Web Engine Publishes Its 2023 Roadmap

[c117152]

So they are trying to update the dependencies of the master branch for 3 quartals?

There's around 1000 dependencies: https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/master/Cargo.lock

[Berniyh]

Damn, I thought it was dead after Mozilla laid off all those engineers. Or at least, in the same state of GNU Hurd is in right now.

Hurd is not in a state, it's in a Hurd of states, none of which resemble any kind of usefulness.

[mdedetrich]

Hurd is not in a state, it's in a Hurd of states, none of which resemble any kind of usefulness.

This is gold.

[Danielsan]

Wasn't Servo the current Firefox engine?

[Estranged1906]

I thought Servo was not needed anymore as all the good parts have been implemented into Gecko. At least that's what Mozilla people said.

[Quackdoc]

I thought Servo was not needed anymore as all the good parts have been implemented into Gecko. At least that's what Mozilla people said.

lots of people wanted servo, as it could be used from the ground up for something new, new the frankenstien that is gecko. but a real modular webrowser that's minimal and easy to embed is in high demand.

Wasn't Servo the current Firefox engine?

no. parts of servo was ported to gecko

[skierpage]

I thought Servo was not needed anymore as all the good parts have been implemented into Gecko. At least that's what Mozilla people said.

Mozilla integrated the Stylo parallelized CSS parser and style manager, and the WebRender 2D rendering engine, both written in Rust, from Servo into Gecko, Firefox's browser engine.

There are a ton of other pieces to a browser: networking, history, bookmarks, location bar, cookie management, tab handling, plug-ins, etc. I don't know if Servo's implementation of those things had any particular advances over Firefox. In general, Rust allows better and more reliable parallel and asynchronous operation.

[reza]

a real modular webrowser that's minimal and easy to embed is in high demand.

A browser called Flow is in the works: https://www.ekioh.com/flow-browser/

[Quackdoc]

A browser called Flow is in the works: https://www.ekioh.com/flow-browser/

i've heard of it, but isn't flow engine completely proprietary? I can see that being a large deal breaker for a lot of people.

[Estranged1906]

A browser called Flow is in the works: https://www.ekioh.com/flow-browser/

It looks promising but as long as it's proprietary it won't go anywhere...

Gecko, Blink, Webkit, Servo, Goanna, even Netsurf and Ladybird are all FOSS.