As with all the other alternative browser-related projects, I wish them luck. It isn’t easy just keeping pace with the details of current standards documents for rendering webpages—climbing up from zero (even if they’ve already made considerable progress) has got to be even more difficult.
Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust.
Submitted 2 days ago by juergen@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-a-new-web-engine-written-in-rust/
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nyan@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
theherk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think Servo joining LF is one of the more exciting things of the last few years in software. I really hope they keep making progress.
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
LF?
otter@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 day ago
Line Feed.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If someone needs to be explained what a web browser engine is, they probably don’t know or care what rust is
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I don’t think that’s true on a site like Lemmy, where you have a -lot- of hardcore techies interacting with non-techies and encouraging them to learn. And also just non-techies constantly exposed to info about tech. There’s so much tech stuff here it’s impossible to avoid.
As a direct result of being on Lemmy, I’m familiar with rust (vaguely, but I know there are projects to re-code stuff in rust, and that it’s supposed to be a more robust language for… reasons), and care enough to read about it when there are posts I can understand about it (my tech level is sort of… on the low end of intermediate) but I don’t know anything about how web browsers work, because it’s just never come up.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Ok? And?
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ok? And? To your comment
TeddE@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Good thing /c/technology@lemmy.world subscribers isn’t exclusively populated by those users!
Finding a group of people who don’t care about a thing is generally like shooting fish in a barrel. Caring is fundamentally hard.
mjr@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Any browsers except the minimal servoshell yet?
Is it faster to start up? Is it less snoopy? Are these in some FAQ I missed?
GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
There was an experimental project called verso but that hasn’t been worked on in some time. Those questions aren’t the right ones. It’s a browser engine still early in development. There is no startup time because there’s no product. It can’t snoop because all it does is implement web standards as they’re prescribed by the w3c.
All of those things come with a full featured browser which servo currently is not interested/funded/ready to build internally
biotin7@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Ooooh hey guys Igalia is a tech-cooperative. Pretty cool right
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 day ago
Yay! I love to see it. I briefly looked into it this summer but then I got distracted and lost track
davidgro@lemmy.world 1 day ago
When I saw the headline I was thinking it’s hardly new, being from 2012, but they covered and explained that well. I’m glad progress is accelerating.
Eldritch@piefed.world 1 day ago
Heh well in the scheme of things it is rather new. But yeah, I think I saw a Brodie video where he discussed this. Basically them joining the Linux Foundation and putting out their first ever tagged release. There'd been code for a decade. Just no tagged releases.