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Servo was never intended to replace Gecko. People outside of Mozilla assumed that, but the intention was always that bits of Servo would be progressively upstre
by steveklabnik 1y ago
Servo was never intended to replace Gecko. People outside of Mozilla assumed that, but the intention was always that bits of Servo would be progressively upstreamed, which is what happened.
- thw_9a83c 1y agoThis is nitpicking. The project was called Quantum, and the goal was to gradually replace Gecko components with Servo parts [0]. [0]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Quantum-Servo https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Quantum-Servo
- steveklabnik 1y agoRight, gradual replacement != "throw away Gecko and replace with Servo". They never "realized [they couldn't easily] make it a viable replacement" because that wasn't the goal.
- hu3 1y agoRegardless of semantics, gradual replacement gave many of us much more hope than what actually happened, when Mozilla dismantled their Servo team.
- steveklabnik 1y agoFor sure, it’s sad that they did what they did.