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Isn't Firefox Reality (now Wolvic) running on Servo?

• ComputerGuru 3y ago
  Maybe that’s what this is about? It’s Igalia.
  • lproven 3y ago
    [Article author/submitter here] I can only tell you that it is not what this is about, inasmuch as I was at the talk and there was not a single mention of Firefox Reality or Wolvic in the talk. Wolvic might use Servo – but I think if it did they would mention it, right? The talk didn't and the word "Wolvic" does not occur anywhere on https://servo.org https://servo.org So I am guessing not, no. Igalia has -- or rather is because it's a co-op -- about 100 developers. They are not all working on the same thing.
    • bkardell 3y ago
      Hi, Igalian here. I can tell you that Wolvic does not use Servo nor are there any immediate (or even long term at this point) plans for it to. That's not to say it couldn't happen someday or that it wouldn't be interesting. We are major contributors to a lot of major projects and many of them have something to do with web engines (see https://bkardell.com/blog/2023-Mid-Season-Power-Rankings.html https://bkardell.com/blog/2023-Mid-Season-Power-Rankings.htm...) so it's easy enough to see connections, but the connections are mainly often more generally just "we have a lot of interest in web stuff, and a great reputation for contributing".
• sp332 3y ago
  According to https://wolvic.com/en/faq/ https://wolvic.com/en/faq/ it uses GeckoView. Wolvic currently uses GeckoView. That said, as part of our experimentation in 2021, we showed a version of Firefox Reality backed with WPE WebKit through an experimental abstraction layer. Igalia has since developed a a robust abstration layer which will allow it to be somewhat more decoupled from the underlying engine, thus allowing different engine backends. We are currently in the process of integrating a Chromium backend.