@hopland Pale Moon will not follow suit in the goal of replacing Gecko with Servo (which we thought Mozilla would be doing in its destruction of everything from the Netscape legacy it inherited the torch from, but yet didn’t do and instead laid off the Servo team). The exclusion of Rust from our platform codebase is intentional. Having to juggle with many languages in the platform like C/C++ (having to note the subtle difference between the two siblings as well when compiling!), JavaScript, XUL, Python, autoconf… That takes constant effort. Rust with its own quirks and ecosystem would probably make it triple for us.

We’ve also forked Gecko a long time ago into Goanna since 2016 with the release of version 26 of Pale Moon, and an organization that maintains Goanna and the Unified XUL Platform that Pale Moon builds on is also there, albeit less formal than Mozilla’s (more accurate to call MCP a collective rather than a corporation or foundation): https://www.moonchild.productions/

Fun fact, when we were starting up our final hard fork of Mozilla’s platform from ESR 52, which became the Unified XUL Platform aka UXP, we did ask other Mozilla-related projects like SeaMonkey and Waterfox if they’d like to join forces with us. They refused and instead tried to fork from ESR 56 in their own. Waterfox eventually had to abandon it (the “Classic” version has not had any updates since 2022), and SeaMonkey is still stuck trying to fully adapt to current mozilla-central but couldn’t because it currently breaks their internet suite… As of right now SeaMonkey is still struggling with implementing Google WebComponents which breaks a lot of websites for them.