Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations

Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by lmm on Thursday February 06, 2025 @02:37AM (#42960034)

I can remember when the rhetoric against Java apps being "slow" was just as strong as it is against Electron now. And they've always been less native-feeling and clunkier than Electron.

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Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by pjmlp on Thursday February 06, 2025 @03:36AM (#42960338)

Java is a ferrari when compared to Electron.

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Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by lmm on Friday February 07, 2025 @08:12PM (#42979379)

How so? I know there are theoretical arguments and microbenchmarks that Java might be faster than JavaScript, but I've never seen an actual user-facing GUI app in Java that felt smoother to use than good Electron apps.

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Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations by viraptor on Thursday February 06, 2025 @07:55AM (#42961874)

Electron shifted the scales to below the old Java while Java improved. It's still not great, but given a choice? Let Electron die.

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