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There are a handful of Webkit based browsers out there, though none that popular except for Safari. But yes, 3 is all we're left with outside of a few bespoke
by silisili 3y ago
There are a handful of Webkit based browsers out there, though none that popular except for Safari.
But yes, 3 is all we're left with outside of a few bespoke projects...
- LoganDark 3y agoHonestly the SerenityOS browser (+ its Linux port, Ladybird) is probably the funniest. I wonder if that passes CloudFlare...
- nextaccountic 3y agoServo seems to be more viable than Ladybird
- LoganDark 3y agoI remember back when you could run the Servo app on macOS, it was a doge inside a cog and you could actually browse the internet, there was an address bar and back/forward buttons. But now they've actually removed that sort of stuff and given up on making a standalone browser in Rust, in favor of augmenting Firefox instead. See Firefox Quantum.
- nextaccountic 3y agoMozilla actually fired the Servo developers to focus solely on Firefox (they still employ Rust developers, just not on Servo). But after some years, other companies picked up development on Servo. Servo doesn't have a browser but I'd wager that writing a full featured browser for Servo would be much more useful than another Blink browser
- LoganDark 3y agoI think Servo has already served to bootstrap a bunch of Rust-ecosystem things, and that's why they yeeted it. Though webrender and some other offshoots from Servo are still useful for a lot of projects.