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Talking is easy, Coding is Hard. Servo is still the most important aspect of Mozilla in terms of Security and Speed, I really think after the full development i

Talking is easy, Coding is Hard. Servo is still the most important aspect of Mozilla in terms of Security and Speed, I really think after the full development it will definitely beat the Google Chrome.

mundanevoice 10y ago
Haha. As if there is no development going on in V8. Rewriting anything doesn't mean it will beat it's competitors.
- davidgerard 10y ago
  It's doing a completely different thing to why KHTML/WebKit/Blink is good. I would be unsurprised if Google were quietly doing something similar, of course, particularly with Mozilla having been quite open about this project for several years.
- Ygg2 10y ago
  First of, isn't V8 the JavaScript engine of Chrome? That's a bit apples to oranges comparison, no? One thing Servo didn't touch is JS Virtual machine, it's still SpiderMonkey. Rewriting that AND the layout engine would be suicidal.
  - aquadrop 10y ago
    And I think they didn't touch it because that's the place where they can't use advantage of parallel execution - javascript's model suppose that user's code is single threaded.
  - bitmapbrother 10y ago
    He meant Blink, but he raises a valid point. Development on Blink is just as rapid as it is on Servo if not more so.
  - mundanevoice 9y ago
    Sorry! I meant Blink.
- Sylos 10y ago
  No, rewriting alone doesn't make software great. But you have to realize that all modern browser engines started out before 2000. They were not built with multi-core processors in mind, nor with GPUs, as the web was still mostly text. And it does require rewriting a lot of things to change that architecture out. Google won't be able to compete with that in the long run just by continuously updating their browser engine.
  - mundanevoice 9y ago
    Rewriting anything in a new language is a very time consuming and expensive process. To maintain feature parity with the latest and keeping up with bugs introduced could be very difficult. Google has much more juice to pull something like this off with lots of money. I doubt Mozilla could actually compete in the long run without generating lots of money like Google does.
bitmapbrother 10y ago
You make it sound like the Google Chrome developers have completed their development and have gone home. By the time Firefox finishes their new Servo engine Chrome will be on version 65+. So lets see where we stand in terms of security and performance when Firefox actually starts shipping a production version of their new engine instead of calling it right now.
tn135 10y ago
Silver bullets often fail in the world technology. Especially when Chrome has taken up such a huge market share. There might not be any Mozilla if they don't ship it fast enough.

mundanevoice 10y ago

Haha. As if there is no development going on in V8. Rewriting anything doesn't mean it will beat it's competitors.

davidgerard 10y ago
It's doing a completely different thing to why KHTML/WebKit/Blink is good. I would be unsurprised if Google were quietly doing something similar, of course, particularly with Mozilla having been quite open about this project for several years.
Ygg2 10y ago
First of, isn't V8 the JavaScript engine of Chrome? That's a bit apples to oranges comparison, no? One thing Servo didn't touch is JS Virtual machine, it's still SpiderMonkey. Rewriting that AND the layout engine would be suicidal.
- aquadrop 10y ago
  And I think they didn't touch it because that's the place where they can't use advantage of parallel execution - javascript's model suppose that user's code is single threaded.
- bitmapbrother 10y ago
  He meant Blink, but he raises a valid point. Development on Blink is just as rapid as it is on Servo if not more so.
- mundanevoice 9y ago
  Sorry! I meant Blink.
Sylos 10y ago
No, rewriting alone doesn't make software great. But you have to realize that all modern browser engines started out before 2000. They were not built with multi-core processors in mind, nor with GPUs, as the web was still mostly text. And it does require rewriting a lot of things to change that architecture out. Google won't be able to compete with that in the long run just by continuously updating their browser engine.
- mundanevoice 9y ago
  Rewriting anything in a new language is a very time consuming and expensive process. To maintain feature parity with the latest and keeping up with bugs introduced could be very difficult. Google has much more juice to pull something like this off with lots of money. I doubt Mozilla could actually compete in the long run without generating lots of money like Google does.

bitmapbrother 10y ago

You make it sound like the Google Chrome developers have completed their development and have gone home. By the time Firefox finishes their new Servo engine Chrome will be on version 65+. So lets see where we stand in terms of security and performance when Firefox actually starts shipping a production version of their new engine instead of calling it right now.

tn135 10y ago

Silver bullets often fail in the world technology. Especially when Chrome has taken up such a huge market share. There might not be any Mozilla if they don't ship it fast enough.