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Re:What's the future of Servo? by mrec on Friday August 14, 2020 @09:53AM (#24157946)
Microsoft might have done. Picking Chromium as the basis for their new Edge a couple of years ago, instead of Mozilla/Servo, was a disappointment at the time and I suspect will look even worse in future retrospectives.

MS also seem to have a lot more interest in Rust than Google do.

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Re:What's the future of Servo? by TylerE on Friday August 14, 2020 @09:37PM (#24165193)
Yes, picking something that was useable 3 years ago to build a product released 2 years ago instead of an alternative that isn't close to being done NOW was surely a massive strategic miscalculation.
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Re:What's the future of Servo? by mrec on Friday August 14, 2020 @09:51PM (#24165224)
By "Mozilla/Servo" I meant "the Mozilla Firefox codebase along with Servo as its research testbed", not just Servo itself (which AFAIK was never intended to be a generally-shippable browser). Could have been clearer, yes.
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