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This month in Servo: tables, WOFF2, Outreachy, and more
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- Title
- This month in Servo: tables, WOFF2, Outreachy, and more! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine
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- The Servo Project Developers
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- 1140 words
It’s good to see life in the project again.
As things currently stand, there’s really only one web engine that’s designed to be embedded with few or no restrictions on what or how it’s embedded, and that’s WebKit which is decent on Apple platforms, passable on Linux, and bad on Windows. Gecko is difficult to separate from Firefox, and while Blink can technically be used independently from Chromium that’s not advisable as by doing so you’re giving up multiprocess capabilities (all of which is part of Chromium, not Blink).
As far as I’m aware Servo is the only web engine project that’s both positioned to have a reasonable likelihood of reaching a usable point of maturity and is designed to be independent of a host browser.
There's still a long road ahead before reaching parity with the current engines, but I'm excited to see Servo development pick up the pace.
Also I really really want to contribute, but I don't think I can find the time with all my existing projects already. I could build a browser around it for fun though.
I had completely missed that Servo is still an active project and has been moved to the Linux foundation.
It was my impression that Mozilla had picked and integrated various aspects of Servo in Firefox and shelved the project. It is pretty good to see that it is actually still in active development.
They did do that, once Project Quantum was done, development slowed and then they fired the entire Servo team. The Linux Foundation picked up the project, but only managed to secure funding to restart development in 2023.
Great to see that the Servo project is still chugging along.