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Servo is starting to remind me a little of Minix, where it is an ambitious project attempting to fix underlying architectural problems, but the scale of the pro
by Touche 6y ago
Servo is starting to remind me a little of Minix, where it is an ambitious project attempting to fix underlying architectural problems, but the scale of the project being so large that ecosystem progress outpaces it's ability to adapt. I hope I'm wrong.
- wmf 6y agoThat's a well-known problem unfortunately. http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.html http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.html To be a viable computer system, one must honor a huge list of large, and often changing, standards ... A huge amount of work, but if you don't honor the standards, you're marginalized. ... At another level, instruction architectures, buses, etc. have the same influence. With so much externally imposed structure, there's little slop left for novelty. Even worse, commercial companies that "own" standards, such as Microsoft and Cisco, deliberately make standards hard to comply with, to frustrate competition.