Servo Engine contributions this year

Re:Servo Engine contributions this year by brundolf on Thursday July 01, 2021 @12:52PM (#27701243)

I think it's dead unless Mozilla changes its mind or some other company decides to take up the mantle. I doubt an open-source project this ambitious can survive without paid maintainers. And then on top of that, a whole lot of institutional knowledge has been suddenly scattered to the winds.

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Re:Servo Engine contributions this year by amelius on Thursday July 01, 2021 @08:12PM (#27706496)

Can't they find some funding in the EU?

It could be strategic for the EU to have some influence on the web and to not be totally dependent on US-based companies.

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Re:Servo Engine contributions this year by vfclists on Thursday July 01, 2021 @03:08PM (#27703168)

Mozilla management have never been honest about their desires and motives for Firefox.

How can an organization created by venture capitalists which depends on Google for most of its income commit itself to challenging Google?

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Re:Servo Engine contributions this year by ianbicking on Thursday July 01, 2021 @06:15PM (#27705555)

I worked at Mozilla for a long time and this interpretation is simply not true.

Servo does not, even if finished, turn into a self-supporting product. Keeping Gecko going already is a huge challenge for Mozilla.

I don't have a lot of faith in Mozilla leadership's ability to compete, but it's certainly not that they don't want to try to compete.

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Re:Servo Engine contributions this year by rank0 on Thursday July 01, 2021 @06:36PM (#27705723)

What is your honest opinion of the management there? And what do you make of OPs statement about reliance on funding from google?

I’m genuinely curious

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Re:Servo Engine contributions this year by ianbicking on Thursday July 01, 2021 @06:45PM (#27705816)

Everyone has to walk on eggshells around anything that might affect the Google search deal, but that's mostly it. If anything the Google money is resented, even though it also funds everything.

IMHO leadership always lacked imagination around Firefox, and never had the fortitude to back any alternate investment enough for it to succeed.

More generally I wrote a blog post with my interpretation: https://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2020/11/firefox-was-always-e...

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Re:Servo Engine contributions this year by IshKebab on Thursday July 01, 2021 @04:43PM (#27704555)

You're being downvoted because you're airing an uncomfortable truth. Deep down they know you are right but they don't want to admit it so they downvote you.

It's a natural human trait; I doubt Lobster is any better.

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Re:Servo Engine contributions this year by CameronNemo on Thursday July 01, 2021 @12:58PM (#27701334)

Software is never alive nor dead. The question is if it can keep up with the moving target of modern web standards, or if it can even provide limited compatibility.

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Re:Servo Engine contributions this year by johnjj257 on Thursday July 01, 2021 @01:08PM (#27701485)

Yea and if it can't it's essentially dead...

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Re:Servo Engine contributions this year by CameronNemo on Thursday July 01, 2021 @01:47PM (#27702048)

Again, it was never alive and it cannot be dead. It is software.

It will probably always pass ACID 3.

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