Servo: A new web engine written in Rust
blogs.igalia.com
Detailed description slide by slide of my Servo talk at GOSIM Hangzhou 2025.
  • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    10 days 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.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 days 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.

  • theherk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    10 days 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.

  • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    24·
    10 days 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.worldEnglish
    151·
    10 days ago

    If someone needs to be explained what a web browser engine is, they probably don’t know or care what rust is

    • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      15·
      9 days 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.

    • TeddE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 days 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.pubEnglish
    8·
    10 days 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?