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Yeah, I also didn't see a culture of saying "we're going to replace Gecko." Not because there was any instruction to speak carefully AFAIK, but because that's n
by azakai 4y ago
Yeah, I also didn't see a culture of saying "we're going to replace Gecko." Not because there was any instruction to speak carefully AFAIK, but because that's not the goal. The goal was for Servo to succeed, hopefully both technically and as a product.
Product success could happen through convergence with Gecko (as actually happened, but again, the convergence could have been tilted the other way), or through Servo powering something separate from Gecko (for an example of that, in later years Servo was meant to power Mixed Reality projects, which is a story in itself; but other ideas include Servo as an embedded engine, or powering distinct tabs in Firefox and other obvious ideas).
In some of those options Servo could have been a full browser engine or even a full browser. I think there was always a hope for that. I'm sad it didn't happen, but it's still a big success in several important ways. Anyhow, I just hope the history doesn't get rewritten as "the goal was always exactly what happened in the end."