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Other comments give more detail, but some of the good ideas made it into Firefox. A similar thing happened at Google when Omega seemed like it might replace Bor
by singron 3y ago
Other comments give more detail, but some of the good ideas made it into Firefox. A similar thing happened at Google when Omega seemed like it might replace Borg. Borg adopted the best ideas and Omega got cancelled.
Sometimes it's easier to retrofit the novel ideas from a research system into the production system than it is to make the research system into the production system, and that's OK.
- thrdbndndn 3y agoWhich is totally fine I think, but I guess there really isn't much future for the current Servo project, right?
- MrJohz 3y agoServo had a period where it had no active backing, but now it's part of the Linux Foundation and seems to have more buzz around it. I know Tauri (UI toolkit for Rust and other languages) are looking at ways to use Servo as the backend for developing UIs in Rust, kind of like a more lightweight electron.
- TheCoelacanth 3y agoIt seems they're even making some progress on that https://servo.org/blog/2024/01/19/embedding-update/ https://servo.org/blog/2024/01/19/embedding-update/