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Two months in Servo: better inline layout, stable Rust, and more! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine (servo.org)
submitted 9 months ago by starman@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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Improved control over typography, very early support for sticky positioning and tables, plus updates to our minibrowser and build tooling.

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[–] verdare@beehaw.org 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I was pretty excited for a Servo when it was first announced. Then Mozilla shifted priorities and development slowed down to a crawl. Glad to see some more activity on it now.

I presume the tentative future goal would be to rebase Firefox on top of this. Hopefully Servo does eventually reach that level of maturity.

[–] starman@programming.dev 17 points 9 months ago

IIRC, some code from Servo was merged into Firefox during project Quantum

[–] technom@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

It's more likely we'll see a new browser with Servo rather than Firefox replacing Gecko with it - especially after Mozilla's recent wayward behavior starting with cutting Rust and Servo lose. But even more likely is Servo becoming a backend for Tauri. Anything beyond that will depend on the developers' persistence.