I have to say, the work being done on Servo is really exciting—the first tectonic shift in browser engines to come along in years. pcwalton's talk about WebRen

I have to say, the work being done on Servo is really exciting—the first tectonic shift in browser engines to come along in years. pcwalton's talk about WebRender earlier this year[1] was one of those rare technical presentations that left my jaw on the floor. In particular, the insight that modern browsers are just AAA game engines with a security model, so they should be architected similarly, changed the way I think about browsers. That game developers and Mozilla are both so excited by Rust's ability to safely write parallel systems at scale makes a lot of sense. [1]: https://air.mozilla.org/bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016/#@25m50s https://air.mozilla.org/bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016/#... Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11175258 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11175258