Let's build another web browser based on Servo!

Let’s build another web browser based on Servo!

  • Praise Idleness@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    40·
    2 months ago

    I just can’t imagine how much of a work writing a freaking web engine from scratch is. Massive respect to all the devs working on Servo. Hope it release pretty soon.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
      85·
      2 months ago

      Andreas Kling wrote a lot of Ladybird himself. It’s not finished yet, and it’s turned into a big community project with full time employees now, but with some experience building browsers, the modern spec evidently makes it quite a reasonable task to build a web engine. There are a lot of IDL files and whatnot to parse and process documents and the rendering algorithms are almost all laid out in the spec these days.

      I tried Servo last month and I must say that after what I’ve seen Ladybird do, I was kind of disappointed. I don’t think release is very close based on the problems I’ve encountered.

      • socialpankakemix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1719·
        2 months ago

        yeah but ladybird devs care more about enforcing male centric pronouns than spending all of like 5 minutes changing him to they after many people requested it.

        • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
          143·
          2 months ago

          I don’t really see what that has to do with the feasibility of writing a new browser engine or the development status of either browser engine, but yeah, it was pretty silly of him to get dragged into an argument over that.

  • Lung@lemmy.world
    24·
    2 months ago

    Huh wow this has been going for a decade, uses Rust, and is run by the Linux Foundation now? That’s all very hype - seems like they need another couple years, but there is hope! I’m impressed

  • foremanguy@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 months ago

    We need to go back to the early web, we need to have a more useful than fancy web. Have a lot of browser to choose from, pages will load faster, be more lightweight and less trackers. I’m talking of a web with less JS…

  • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    2 months ago

    Servo: The dead software that is trying to invent new reasons to exist after it was excised from Firefox!