TolcServo 0.0.1 released!
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ISOmorphIt’s the next big hope for a browser engine besides the 3 current ones, powering chrome, firefox and safari
Their githib: github.com/servo/servo
GitHub - servo/servo: Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications. - servo/servo
Aatube(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)
Ladybird also has rather questionable politics hyperborea.org/reviews/…/ladybird-inclusivity/
(I.e. it would be ironic if we pushed for it to succeed and it ended up supplanting gecko and Mozilla)
RmDebArc_5Servo is a web browser rendering engine written in rust. It was originally started by Mozilla but then abandoned
muusemuuseWhy did they abandon it? I thought they merged it in a while back.
They were merging parts. They cut active maintance as part of the budget crunch they are under with Google being the primary funding.
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.
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.
Minor correction: Blink is the browser engine, Chromium is the open source browser project.
Servo is a web browser rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.
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Daniel QuinnDoes this mean we can finally ditch all those memory-hungry Electron apps?
Does tauri use Servo under the hood already?
No, it uses the WebView that comes with the operating system to minimize memory usage.
The page just says it’s equivalent to the nightlies. No indication how usable it is, what is/isn’t working, what’s next.
It’s 0.0.1, what did you expect
Most things work on most sites, however it’s not near daily usable yet. It currently passes 1,767,739/2,060,633 web platform tests. wpt.fyi/results/?product=servo lists out all the tested apis and their pass rates
They report a score which is not very correlated with the number of tests passed (there was a big increase in the number of tests that pass in 2023 but the score barely rose). I could not figure out how to show the score for other browsers on wpt.fyi.
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.