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I'm just hoping someone will create a new Electron (used in Atom), but based on Servo instead of Chromium.
by tinganho 11y ago
I'm just hoping someone will create a new Electron (used in Atom), but based on Servo instead of Chromium.
- ed_blackburn 11y agoI wonder if Electron will evolve to permit different engines? blink, Edge?, servo? Whilst this offers options, my concern would be over complicating Electron with a plethora of abstractions some of which maybe leaky as engines innovate and diverge.
- glandium 11y agoWouldn't Microsoft have interest in doing that, though, for Visual Studio Code?
- ed_blackburn 11y agoPerhaps. Or perhaps they're satisfied that the Chromium engine is sufficient. As I understand it the goal of Visual Studio Code is to be cross platform and bring .NET to a wider audience. The engine is immaterial? WE shall see though. Perhaps Full Fat Windows only Visual Studio will borrow from Visual Studio Code and require a different engine, to play nice with Direct X, or other Windows proprietary tech?
- dubcanada 11y agoIt's very tightly integrated with V8. The UI/non JS part of it can be easily replaced with what ever,