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Re:Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly by IamCarbonMan on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @09:22AM (#14847489)
Servo is a complete (although WIP) browser engine in Rust. Stylo is a project to plug the style parts of Servo into Firefox, which currently uses the Gecko browser engine. This is part of Mozilla's ongoing efforts to modernize Firefox by gradually rewriting it in Rust.

WebKit is technically only used by Safari. Chrome uses a WebKit fork called Blink, and MS Edge uses its own engine called Chakra.

I assume the above commenter was expressing relief that someone besides Google is making a fast, modern web browser these days.

Re:Stylo shipping in Firefox Nightly by bzbarsky on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @09:40AM (#14847614)
Chakra is just the JS implementation in Edge; it's the equivalent of JavaScriptCore in Safari, V8 in Chrome, or SpiderMonkey in Firefox.

The layout engine bits in Edge are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeHTML