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Congratulations! I wish someone would sponsor completing Servo as fast as possible, or completing rewriting of Firefox in Rust.

by xvilka 3y ago

cyberpunk 3y ago
If only there was some kind of foundation which could choose where to spend the many millions of funding it receives each year...
- grey_earthling 3y ago
  Of course the wisest thing to spend it on would be integrating a proprietary competitor to Wallabag. That's exactly what the open web needs most.
- intelVISA 3y ago
  Then who is going to fund market disruptors such as Pocket?
samwillis 3y ago
Servo was moved to the Linux Foundation in 2019, and earlier this year Igalia (an open source consulting company) contributed funds and developer time to advance the project. I believe they have a small team full time on it. You can read more here: https://servo.org/blog/2023/01/16/servo-2023/ https://servo.org/blog/2023/01/16/servo-2023/ https://people.igalia.com/mrego/servo/igalia-servo-tsc-2022/ https://people.igalia.com/mrego/servo/igalia-servo-tsc-2022/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34400214 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34400214 So, your "wish someone would sponsor completing Servo as fast as possible", is looking like it's coming true. Note though that Servo and Ladybird have vary different motivations and objectives.
- intelVISA 3y ago
  > an open source consulting company Not sure how to feel about this combination, are they any good?
  - MatthiasPortzel 3y ago
    Igalia is responsible for a lot of open source contributions to web browsers. Here’s an article about them. => https://thenewstack.io/igalia-the-open-source-powerhouse-youve-never-heard-of/ https://thenewstack.io/igalia-the-open-source-powerhouse-you...
est31 3y ago
FTR, Servo has received funding by Mozilla by having their engineers work on it that amounts to way way more than 100k USD.
jedisct1 3y ago
Have you actually looked at it/tried to contribute to it? Servo was a promising experiment, but it eventually became a massive, complicated, unmaintainable mess.

Congratulations! I wish someone would sponsor completing Servo as fast as possible, or completing rewriting of Firefox in Rust.

by xvilka 3y ago

Congratulations! I wish someone would sponsor completing Servo as fast as possible, or completing rewriting of Firefox in Rust.

cyberpunk 3y ago

If only there was some kind of foundation which could choose where to spend the many millions of funding it receives each year...

grey_earthling 3y ago
Of course the wisest thing to spend it on would be integrating a proprietary competitor to Wallabag. That's exactly what the open web needs most.
intelVISA 3y ago
Then who is going to fund market disruptors such as Pocket?

samwillis 3y ago

Servo was moved to the Linux Foundation in 2019, and earlier this year Igalia (an open source consulting company) contributed funds and developer time to advance the project. I believe they have a small team full time on it. You can read more here: https://servo.org/blog/2023/01/16/servo-2023/ https://servo.org/blog/2023/01/16/servo-2023/ https://people.igalia.com/mrego/servo/igalia-servo-tsc-2022/ https://people.igalia.com/mrego/servo/igalia-servo-tsc-2022/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34400214 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34400214 So, your "wish someone would sponsor completing Servo as fast as possible", is looking like it's coming true. Note though that Servo and Ladybird have vary different motivations and objectives.

intelVISA 3y ago
> an open source consulting company Not sure how to feel about this combination, are they any good?
- MatthiasPortzel 3y ago
  Igalia is responsible for a lot of open source contributions to web browsers. Here’s an article about them. => https://thenewstack.io/igalia-the-open-source-powerhouse-youve-never-heard-of/ https://thenewstack.io/igalia-the-open-source-powerhouse-you...

est31 3y ago

FTR, Servo has received funding by Mozilla by having their engineers work on it that amounts to way way more than 100k USD.

jedisct1 3y ago

Have you actually looked at it/tried to contribute to it? Servo was a promising experiment, but it eventually became a massive, complicated, unmaintainable mess.