• daggermoon@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m just learning there’s another web engine? I heard about Ladybird but not this. Now I need to try it.

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      2 months ago

      Servo was an experimental ground for Mozilla in some ways (like testing out a new CSS engine and porting it back to Gecko if it works). So it’s quite normal for people to be unaware of it, it was not meant for the public.

      But later on it was abandoned by Mozilla and stuck in a limbo, until it got picked up by the Linux Foundation. Now it’s a standalone project and I wish them well. We really need a new FOSS web engine.

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        2 months ago

        I hate having to rely on Gecko alone to keep Google from having complete control of the web. Very happy to hear about Servo.

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      Servo was codeveloped with rust by Mozilla, to get a faster and safer engine. Servo basically showed where improvements needed to be done and then rustc was modified to fit the need.