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[-] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 38 points 11 months ago

I clicked the link and read the site and still have no idea what that is

[-] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 57 points 11 months ago

Servo is a web browser rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.

Essentially it is an alternative to chromium based web browser engines. The other (major) web browser engines are WebKit for iOS and Gecko for Firefox. You can see a list at Wikipedia.

[-] Overshoot2648@lemmy.today 13 points 11 months ago

Minor correction: Blink is the browser engine, Chromium is the open source browser project.

[-] ISOmorph@feddit.org 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's the next big hope for a browser engine besides the 3 current ones, powering chrome, firefox and safari

Their github: https://github.com/servo/servo

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 33 points 11 months ago

(there's also Ladybird but Servo is more exciting as the Rust one that used to be supported by Mozilla and now by the Linux Foundation)

[-] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 28 points 11 months ago

Ladybird also has rather questionable politics https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/

[-] Griffus@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 months ago

Oh, and it has just taken a turn for the worst as well, seeing the latest update in the article

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

(I.e. it would be ironic if we pushed for it to succeed and it supplanted Gecko and Mozilla)

[-] Overshoot2648@lemmy.today 4 points 11 months ago

Technically it's already partially in Mozilla Firefox via Firefox Quantum.

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

Look at that, Servo is already in 6% of browsers

[-] snikta@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

What parts did they include from Servo?

[-] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 4 points 11 months ago

Man, that would be great

[-] RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip 19 points 11 months ago

Servo is a web browser rendering engine written in rust. It was originally started by Mozilla but then abandoned

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Why did they abandon it? I thought they merged it in a while back.

[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 11 months ago

At Mozilla, Servo was basically a research branch that tried new approaches to push performance. Mozilla would merge parts from servo that brought significant performance boost. But when they were pushed to cut budget, instead of lowering executive pay, they shut down the servo team.

Servo, then spun off as independent project.

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

They were merging parts. They cut active maintance as part of the budget crunch they are under with Google being the primary funding.

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago

Browser engine

[-] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

A web engine, like Gecko, Blink and so on.

[-] sixty@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

My exact thought

[-] cornshark@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

The page just says it's equivalent to the nightlies. No indication how usable it is, what is/isn't working, what's next.

[-] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

Does this mean we can finally ditch all those memory-hungry Electron apps?

[-] mmmac@lemmy.zip 9 points 11 months ago

Think you're looking for Tauri

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Does tauri use Servo under the hood already?

[-] semi@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

No, it uses the WebView that comes with the operating system to minimize memory usage.

[-] snikta@programming.dev -1 points 11 months ago

I'm curious about why they aren't stable yet. It's been a while. And there should be a lot incentives. Like cash. If one wants some.

My guess is that something is not right with the project or the chosen technology. And that some other project will be first to deliver the new memory safe browser engine reference implementation. Maybe I'm just being grumpy.