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I don't understand what the difference is between Quantum and Servo. To me it sounds like a new name for the same thing. I recall Servo being promoted this way
by runeks 10y ago
I don't understand what the difference is between Quantum and Servo. To me it sounds like a new name for the same thing. I recall Servo being promoted this way three years ago.
- bzbarsky 10y agoServo is a project to build a new rendering engine in Rust, taking advantage of its security properties and ease of doing parallelism to do things that other rendering engines are not willing or are not able to do in terms of parallel execution. Quantum is a project to significantly change some of the core parts of Gecko. Some of this will involve sharing some code with Servo, some will involve changing the Gecko code directly. There is overlap between the two in the form of some shared components, which may be causing your confusion.
- Manishearth 10y agoQuantum is about new architectural advances within Gecko. These advances can be achieved by taking code from Servo (Quantum Style), ideas from Servo (Quantum DOM), or in general new ideas (not sure if any of the quantum projects are of this form). Servo is still its own thing. The timelines are radically different, Quantum is something you should be able to directly benefit from a year from now; Servo is something you should be able to directly benefit (as a product) from in the far future. You of course may indirectly benefit from Servo when its advances are applied to other browser engines (which is what quantum is).