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.
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daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m just learning there’s another web engine? I heard about Ladybird but not this. Now I need to try it.
Flipper@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
orangeboats@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 quite meant for the public.
For a while it was abandoned by Mozilla and stuck in a limbo, until it got picked up by the Linux Foundation.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Gecko isnt?
LeFantome@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Gecko is of course Open Source. It is also pretty much the oldest browser engine code base and written in C++. Servo is modern and Rust. Gecko started at Netscape.
The other problem is that Gecko is hard to embed.