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Not even Mozilla like Gecko though, hence their effort to replace it with Servo, and for the time-being to replace components of Gecko with stable Servo compone
by gnode 8y ago
Not even Mozilla like Gecko though, hence their effort to replace it with Servo, and for the time-being to replace components of Gecko with stable Servo components in Firefox (the Quantum project).
- Vinnl 8y agoThey're not actively planning to replace Gecko with Servo, but rather to incorporate improvements from Servo into Gecko.
- lugg 8y agoIt's a strangler pattern. They're going to replace gecko piece by piece until it's all servo. I'm not sure why people are saying they like or don't like gecko. It's just old tech and they're replacing it from the ground up but doing it in a sustainable way. In the end servo will be dropped and gecko will just be gecko newer version.
- Vinnl 8y agoThere are no concrete plans for that either.
- lugg 8y agoThats literally the point of using a strangler pattern. Concrete plans lead to making hard to change decisions before you need to.
- Vinnl 8y agoWell, then there's no way to tell whether they're using the strangler pattern, or simply not replacing Gecko with Servo at all. I find the former to be highly unlikely though, given the amount of work that would entail.