I clicked the link and read the site and still have no idea what that is
this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2025
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Servo is a web browser rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.
Essentially it is an alternative to chromium based web browser engines. The other (major) web browser engines are WebKit for iOS and Gecko for Firefox. You can see a list at Wikipedia.
Minor correction: Blink is the browser engine, Chromium is the open source browser project.
It's the next big hope for a browser engine besides the 3 current ones, powering chrome, firefox and safari
Their github: https://github.com/servo/servo
(there's also Ladybird but Servo is more exciting as the Rust one that used to be supported by Mozilla and now by the Linux Foundation)
Ladybird also has rather questionable politics https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/
Oh, and it has just taken a turn for the worst as well, seeing the latest update in the article
(I.e. it would be ironic if we pushed for it to succeed and it ended up supplanting gecko and Mozilla)
Technically it's already partially in Mozilla Firefox via Firefox Quantum.
Look at that, Servo is already in 6% of browsers
What parts did they include from Servo?
Man, that would be great
Browser engine
Servo is a web browser rendering engine written in rust. It was originally started by Mozilla but then abandoned
Why did they abandon it? I thought they merged it in a while back.
At Mozilla, Servo was basically a research branch that tried new approaches to push performance. Mozilla would merge parts from servo that brought significant performance boost. But when they were pushed to cut budget, instead of lowering executive pay, they shut down the servo team.
Servo, then spun off as independent project.
They were merging parts. They cut active maintance as part of the budget crunch they are under with Google being the primary funding.
A web engine, like Gecko, Blink and so on.
My exact thought
The page just says it's equivalent to the nightlies. No indication how usable it is, what is/isn't working, what's next.
Does this mean we can finally ditch all those memory-hungry Electron apps?
I'm curious about why they aren't stable yet. It's been a while. And there should be a lot incentives. Like cash. If one wants some.
My guess is that something is not right with the project or the chosen technology. And that some other project will be first to deliver the new memory safe browser engine reference implementation. Maybe I'm just being grumpy.
its not easy to develop browser engine from scratch. Also theyve only started working actively on the project for like 2 years now
Fair enough.