Re:Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla
by hansjorg on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @04:27AM
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Several parts of Servo have been incorporated into Firefox (Stylo, Webrender, Pathfinder and more).
I think Servo was branded as a research project pretty early on. That it would replace Firefox wasn't very realistic.
And here is a 2013 post about the "next generation" engine (Servo) https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/04/03/mozilla-and-samsung...
> So they cut teams that a) weren't directly working on their core browser and b) doesn't make money for spending on their browser.
Exactly, that means they do not see any value in closing the gap with Chrome. Servo was this plan that launched years ago. See this paragraph from the above post from 2013
> Servo is an attempt to rebuild the Web browser from the ground up on modern hardware, rethinking old assumptions along the way. This means addressing the causes of security vulnerabilities while designing a platform that can fully utilize the performance of tomorrow’s massively parallel hardware to enable new and richer experiences on the Web.
Not to mention their threat response team got laid off
https://www.securityweek.com/mozilla-cybersecurity-staff-hit...