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> I'm very excited about Servo. Can't believe Mozilla wasn't interested in it. This doesn’t feel like an accurate statement. It’s probably better described tha
by bluejekyll 3y ago
> I'm very excited about Servo. Can't believe Mozilla wasn't interested in it.
This doesn’t feel like an accurate statement. It’s probably better described that Mozilla funded it as a research project, realized that it was going to cost a lot more money and time to bring it fully to the market and decided to save the money (and distributed that money to execs and others in ways that were not inline with their projected morals).
Based on what I’ve read from their blog posts, Mozilla then took what they could from Servo and incorporated it into Firefox, which means they were able to get some value from the project.
My guess is that if someone were to have offered Mozilla a lot of money and an unlimited timeline to complete Servo, they would have done it.
- ericlewis 3y agoIf you offered me a lot of money and unlimited timeline I'd have done it as well, and I don't know what Servo is.
- dale_glass 3y agoServo is an experimental web engine written in Rust, originally by Mozilla.
- dralley 3y ago>My guess is that if someone were to have offered Mozilla a lot of money and an unlimited timeline to complete Servo, they would have done it. My understanding is that they tried to do that with VR (turn Servo into the first VR-capable browser and work on browser-technology-based AR overlays) and even had a partnership with Magic Leap at one point, it just never really went anywhere.
- bluejekyll 3y agoAh, yeah, I forgot about that. Seemed like a good tactic to get it onto some production use case more quickly.