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Building a browser using Servo as a web engine! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine (servo.org)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Let's build another web browser based on Servo!

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[+] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

I don't see how insisting on having male pronouns has to do with the feasibility of a browser engine or the development status of it either, but here we are.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Because they wasted 5 people's time on it instead of pulling in the first pr

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Agree

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It was the project that helped develop rust into what it is today.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 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...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where do they get the money for doing this?

[–] brian 6 points 2 months ago

the linux foundation

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

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