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.
Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust.
Submitted 2 months 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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theherk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
LF?
otter@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 months ago
Line Feed.
nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
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.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Ok? And?
Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ok? And? To your comment
TeddE@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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?
biotin7@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Ooooh hey guys Igalia is a tech-cooperative. Pretty cool right
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.