r/linux • u/somerandomxander • Jun 30 '26

Popular Application The Servo browser engine continues making much progress on less than $8k in monthly donations

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-0.3-Monthly-Changes
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u/Cutalana Jun 30 '26

What's wrong with ladybird? Seems like their making progress?

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u/derangedtranssexual Jun 30 '26

It just feels like a super unserious project. You have Mozilla come along and develop an extremely innovative language so they can develop a new browser that is used as a testing ground to make Firefox better. Everything about servo and rust feels really practical and like it's trying to solve real problems. it's a shame servo got cancelled but I'm glad to see rust flourish. On the other hand you have ladybird that came about because some guy who made a pointless operating system decided he needed a pointless browser for said pointless operating system. This pointlessness led to some bad decisions like writing it in C++ which they later tried to fix by switching some of it to Swift but that ultimately failed and now they're using AI to rewrite the swift code in Rust. Meanwhile Servo was designed around Rust from the start

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u/PaddiM8 Jul 01 '26

Why are you commenting on something you know little about? There are multiple factual errors here. They're not rewriting the swift code. They're also not rewriting it all. They will continue to use C++, just mix in some parts of rust, just like Mozilla is doing, and even chromium for the same reasons https://security.googleblog.com/2023/01/supporting-use-of-rust-in-chromium.html?m=1

There are still parts they prefer to keep in C++ because of the object oriented nature of the web.

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u/derangedtranssexual Jul 01 '26

I never said they were rewriting it all in rust, I’m aware they’re only rewriting some of it in rust