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Jarkko Sakkinen

Just learned that #Servo is independent project these days because #Mozilla laid off all of its staff in 2020. #Rust was originally developed specifically for this project. So I guess we have now three competitive web engines instead of two: #Gecko, Servo and #WebKit. servo.org #rustlang
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@jarkko The 800 pound gorilla: and you missed it.

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@alerque right i counted blink as webkit derivative
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@jarkko while technically true as an origin story, with over a decade since the fork, a crazy amount of refactoring on both sides, a completely different JS engine under the hood and completely incompatible APIs (outside of pseudo standardized ones where they still don't behave the same) I think it's fair to stop lumping them together. They aren't playing in the same sandbox.

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Also learned that the compilation process is torture in this project. Putting all eggs for making that easier would be the first priority in my books
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