I don't mean to wade into the question if the strategy with Servo was good or bad or anything like that, but > It was far obvious it would be used to provide t

I don't mean to wade into the question if the strategy with Servo was good or bad or anything like that, but > It was far obvious it would be used to provide things piecemeal to Gecko when it was started. While many people believed that Servo would be a total re-write of the browser, a new clean slate project, everyone involved was very clear from the very beginning that it was not. See slide 3 of the presentation that introduced Rust and Servo inside of Mozilla: http://venge.net/graydon/talks/intro-talk-2.pdf http://venge.net/graydon/talks/intro-talk-2.pdf > We are not “rewriting the browser”. That's impossible. Put down the gun.