One year of sponsored Servo development

p-e-w

What can one actually do with Servo today? It’s apparently still not ready to be used as a browser engine (and may never be), so what exactly is it for?

macic

The Hurd of browser engines

flossly

I really wish a patron would step up and sponsor this project. Not just by money, but also by plugging it in their browser-carrying products. Maybe Hauwei of Samgsung; they now sling a browser derived of another for-profit --usually competitor-- company's browser.

fifilura

Hot take... There is something about programming projects spending 10x (or 1000x) the effort to parallelize execution when everything is still restricted by von Neumann architecture.

vyaa

Congrats on the successful year!

NLnet

NLnet has been sponsoring large blocks of Servo development as well. Filter with 'servo' in the list here: https://nlnet.nl/project/

computersuck

Servo uses mozjs which is just rust bindings for SpiderMonkey which is still C++. All this effort to use rust and yet they would not rewrite the JS engine which is the biggest attack surface for memory vulns.

QwenGlazer9000

I'm glad we have an alternative to ladybird, since I haven't been a fan of the direction of the project for a bit.

throwa356262

Any idea how much this has cost them? Some non-profits have their HQ in the valley and pay SF salaries when they could just as well have paid a fraction of that to a very competent developer elsewhere.

evolve2k

Non ai post as top post. We did it guys! But seriously, it’s nice to see other news on here. Important we keep covering broader tech things.