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Comment by tvshtr

6 days ago

Servo was passed onto Linux Foundation and is still being developed, some of its components are shared with Firefox.

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rvz  6 days ago

Yet, after all these years its browser is quite frankly pre-historic.

  • vsgherzi  6 days ago

    Servo's history is much more complicated and originally was planned to be used for the holo lens before the layoff. Comparing trajectory doesn't make sense they had completely different goals and directions.

  • tvshtr  6 days ago

    What are you talking about? It doesn't have a "browser", it has a testing shell. For a time there was actual attempt with the Verso experiment but it got shelved just recently. Servo is working at being embeddable at the same time when Rust GUI toolkits are maturing. Once it gets embedding stabilized that will be the time for a full blown browser developement.

    • rvz  6 days ago

      > It doesn't have a "browser", it has a testing shell.

      So, yes it is still pre-historic.

      > Once it gets embedding stabilized that will be the time for a full blown browser developement.

      Servo development began in 2012. [0] 14 years later we get a v0.0.1.

      At this point, Ladybird will likely reach 1.0 faster than Servo could, and the latter is not even remotely close to being usable even in 14 years of waiting.

      [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(software)

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