As with all the other alternative browser-related projects, I wish them luck. It isn’t easy just keeping pace with the details of current standards documents for rendering webpages—climbing up from zero (even if they’ve already made considerable progress) has got to be even more difficult.
I think Servo joining LF is one of the more exciting things of the last few years in software. I really hope they keep making progress.
LF?
Line Feed.
If someone needs to be explained what a web browser engine is, they probably don’t know or care what rust is
I don’t think that’s true on a site like Lemmy, where you have a -lot- of hardcore techies interacting with non-techies and encouraging them to learn. And also just non-techies constantly exposed to info about tech. There’s so much tech stuff here it’s impossible to avoid.
As a direct result of being on Lemmy, I’m familiar with rust (vaguely, but I know there are projects to re-code stuff in rust, and that it’s supposed to be a more robust language for… reasons), and care enough to read about it when there are posts I can understand about it (my tech level is sort of… on the low end of intermediate) but I don’t know anything about how web browsers work, because it’s just never come up.
Any browsers except the minimal servoshell yet?
Is it faster to start up? Is it less snoopy? Are these in some FAQ I missed?
These questions aren’t the right ones. It’s a browser engine still early in development. There is no startup time because there’s no product. It can’t snoop because all it does is implement web standards as they’re prescribed by the w3c.
All of those things come with a full featured browser which servo currently is not interested/funded/ready to build internally.
There was an experimental browser project called verso being worked on by a community member, but that hasn’t been updated in some time.
Yay! I love to see it. I briefly looked into it this summer but then I got distracted and lost track
