At Mozilla, Servo was basically a research branch that tried new approaches to push performance. Mozilla would merge parts from servo that brought significant performance boost. But when they were pushed to cut budget, instead of lowering executive pay, they shut down the servo team.
Servo is a web browser rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.
Essentially it is an alternative to chromium based web browser engines. The other (major) web browser engines are WebKit for iOS and Gecko for Firefox. You can see a list at Wikipedia.
I clicked the link and read the site and still have no idea what that is
Servo is a web browser rendering engine written in rust. It was originally started by Mozilla but then abandoned
Why did they abandon it? I thought they merged it in a while back.
They were merging parts. They cut active maintance as part of the budget crunch they are under with Google being the primary funding.
At Mozilla, Servo was basically a research branch that tried new approaches to push performance. Mozilla would merge parts from servo that brought significant performance boost. But when they were pushed to cut budget, instead of lowering executive pay, they shut down the servo team.
Servo, then spun off as independent project.
Browser engine
Essentially it is an alternative to chromium based web browser engines. The other (major) web browser engines are WebKit for iOS and Gecko for Firefox. You can see a list at Wikipedia.
Minor correction: Blink is the browser engine, Chromium is the open source browser project.
My exact thought
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A web engine, like Gecko, Blink and so on.