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Clot@lemmy.zip to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 day ago

Servo 0.0.1 released!

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Servo 0.0.1 released!

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Clot@lemmy.zip to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 day ago
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Servo 0.0.1 Release - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
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A brief update on the goals and plans behind the new Servo releases on GitHub.
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  • snikta@programming.dev
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    I’m curious about why they aren’t stable yet. It’s been a while. And there should be a lot incentives. Like cash. If one wants some.

    My guess is that something is not right with the project or the chosen technology. And that some other project will be first to deliver the new memory safe browser engine reference implementation. Maybe I’m just being grumpy.

    • Clot@lemmy.zipOP
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      its not easy to develop browser engine from scratch. Also theyve only started working actively on the project for like 2 years now

      • snikta@programming.dev
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        5 hours ago

        Fair enough.

  • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden
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    1 day ago

    I clicked the link and read the site and still have no idea what that is

    • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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      13 hours ago

      Browser engine

    • sixty@sh.itjust.works
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      12 hours ago

      My exact thought

    • AliasAKA@lemmy.world
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      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.

      • Overshoot2648@lemmy.today
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        12 hours ago

        Minor correction: Blink is the browser engine, Chromium is the open source browser project.

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      It’s the next big hope for a browser engine besides the 3 current ones, powering chrome, firefox and safari

      Their github: https://github.com/servo/servo

      • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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        (there’s also Ladybird but Servo is more exciting as the Rust one that used to be supported by Mozilla and now by the Linux Foundation)

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          Ladybird also has rather questionable politics https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/

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            16 hours ago

            Oh, and it has just taken a turn for the worst as well, seeing the latest update in the article

        • Midnitte@beehaw.org
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          (I.e. it would be ironic if we pushed for it to succeed and it supplanted Gecko and Mozilla)

          • Overshoot2648@lemmy.today
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            12 hours ago

            Technically it’s already partially in Mozilla Firefox via Firefox Quantum.

            • snikta@programming.dev
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              6 hours ago

              What parts did they include from Servo?

            • Midnitte@beehaw.org
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              11 hours ago

              Look at that, Servo is already in 6% of browsers

      • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden
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        Man, that would be great

    • RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip
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      Servo is a web browser rendering engine written in rust. It was originally started by Mozilla but then abandoned

      • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works
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        Why did they abandon it? I thought they merged it in a while back.

        • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          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.

        • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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          They were merging parts. They cut active maintance as part of the budget crunch they are under with Google being the primary funding.

    • Kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      A web engine, like Gecko, Blink and so on.

    • limonfiesta@lemmy.world
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      deleted by creator

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    The page just says it’s equivalent to the nightlies. No indication how usable it is, what is/isn’t working, what’s next.

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      It’s 0.0.1, what did you expect

      • cornshark@lemmy.world
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        I have no idea what to expect, thus my wish to know more

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          Most things work on most sites, however it’s not near daily usable yet. It currently passes 1,767,739/2,060,633 web platform tests. https://wpt.fyi/results/?product=servo lists out all the tested apis and their pass rates

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            They report a score which is not very correlated with the number of tests passed (there was a big increase in the number of tests that pass in 2023 but the score barely rose). I could not figure out how to show the score for other browsers on wpt.fyi.

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.ca
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    Does this mean we can finally ditch all those memory-hungry Electron apps?

    • mmmac@lemmy.zip
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      21 hours ago

      Think you’re looking for Tauri

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        Does tauri use Servo under the hood already?

        • semi [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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          No, it uses the WebView that comes with the operating system to minimize memory usage.

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