I clicked the link and read the site and still have no idea what that is
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
(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)
Ladybird also has rather questionable politics https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/
Oh, and it has just taken a turn for the worst as well, seeing the latest update in the article
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.
Minor correction: Blink is the browser engine, Chromium is the open source browser project.
Browser engine
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.
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.
A web engine, like Gecko, Blink and so on.
