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there is active work to make the js engine more pluggable https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/40600 (and safety work) https://servo.org/blog/2024/04/15/spidermonkey/ https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Servo-and-SpiderMonkey-R... the…

comment by throawayonthe · 2026-09-17 · in One year of sponsored Servo development

Not a single mention of https://github.com/servo/servo

comment by pat2man · 2026-08-06 · in Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers

The very first link in the post is broken. The correct link is:- https://github.com/servo/servo/releases/tag/0.4.0 Prior releases included a preceding 'v' in the version but not this one for some reason.

comment by chaz6 · 2026-08-01 · in June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more

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story by pimeys · 2026-05-31 · 1 comment

…which is no-JS like Dillo). So I think there might be something Dillo-specific going on here. [0]: https://github.com/servo/servo/ [1]: https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz/

comment by nicoburns · 2026-04-26 · in Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0

…waiting. When Servo is done, it's going to be a beast. It's getting hundreds of commits per week: https://github.com/servo/servo/graphs/commit-activity

comment by echelon · 2026-02-19 · in Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption

…the app to handle internal events(Servoshell does something similar with `spin_event_loop` at https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/611f3ef1625f4972337c247521f3a1d65040bd56/components/servo/servo.rs#L176) - If a redraw is needed, the main…

comment by polyglotfacto · 2026-01-30 · in Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC

…the Servo project - but Servo does use it. https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy Used here (I think): https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/c639bb1a7b3aa0fd5e02b40d...

comment by simonw · 2026-01-26 · in When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype

…the one who was driving the efforts to start experimenting with AI in Servo, which was cut short by https://github.com/servo/servo/discussions/36379 I've been using AI on side-projects ever since, and in those I don't type any code by hand…

comment by polyglotfacto · 2026-01-25 · in Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by parallel agents

Yeah there's more to a browser than a couple of out-of-tree servo components, otherwise https://github.com/servo/servo wouldn't have 300k+ lines of Rust code, 400k+ if you count comments and blanks (I cloned the repo, nuked the tests…

comment by oefrha · 2026-01-17 · in Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence

…It's just plain slop. [1] - https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender/blob/main/Cargo.tom... [2] - https://github.com/servo/servo [3] - https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-2025-stats/

comment by nindalf · 2026-01-16 · in Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence

…you're dealing with the former and when with the latter. [1] https://servo.org/contributing/ [2] https://github.com/servo/servo [3] https://book.servo.org/contributing/getting-started.html [4] https://book.servo.org/building/building.html…

comment by hagbard_c · 2026-01-16 · in Servo is starting to become usable

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story by robin_reala · 2025-11-20 · 0 comments

…is extremely mysterious! Thanks for pointing this out, I've got a new puzzle to dig into now. Edit: https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/40047

comment by lastontheboat · 2025-10-21 · in Servo v0.0.1

Related: https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/21817 You should likely join https://servo.zulipchat.com and ask questions to know where to start.

comment by fabrice_d · 2025-10-20 · in Servo v0.0.1

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story by undeveloper · 2025-10-20 · 204 comments

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story by Aissen · 2025-10-20 · 5 comments

…types of code. (As for Flowistry, I can see this being vital for anyone trying to maintain e.g. https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/main/components/layout/f... - perhaps the most daunting single file in a modern codebase I've ever seen!…

comment by btown · 2025-10-18 · in Flowistry: An IDE plugin for Rust that focuses on relevant code

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story by Bluestein · 2025-06-29 · 0 comments

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AI Policy Update Proposal · servo/servo · Discussion #36379

story by OptionOfT · 2025-04-07 · 1 comment

…for a reason, servo doesn't have any. Ladybird however is extremely actively developed. Looking at https://github.com/servo/servo it's very actively developed and gaining new contributors. The number of contributors for both projects is…

comment by fabrice_d · 2025-03-02 · in Trust in Firefox and Mozilla Is Gone – Let's Talk Alternatives

…to the Linux Foundation. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servo_(software) 2025 Roadmap: https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap

comment by hrdwdmrbl · 2025-03-01 · in Become a sponsor to Servo

…managed[2] by Linux Foundation Europe[3], which gives more hope from the privacy standpoint. [1] https://github.com/servo/servo [2] https://servo.org/about/ [3] https://linuxfoundation.eu/

comment by xvilka · 2025-03-01 · in An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox

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story by rapnie · 2025-02-28 · 0 comments

It seems that they moved it since to a bigger meta issue and it's actively being worked on https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/30593 . There's wider interest since it is being used in the experimental Verso browser now. There's also…

comment by tvshtr · 2024-12-10 · in Qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser

…improve their embedding story, and if someone (not me) makes it work with Python and Qt. Sadly, https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/27579 has been pretty dead for the past years. (And before someone asks for Ladybird backend support:…

comment by The-Compiler · 2024-12-10 · in Qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser

https://github.com/servo/servo Servo is upcoming, but so far it is fantastic in comparison to any other browser out there. I tend to focus on any software that does not require 12 teams of people 6 weeks to determine how to build a single…

comment by chaxor · 2024-11-19 · in DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

Perhaps if chrome finally fails people will move to better things, like servo https://github.com/servo/servo . It would be nice to have a completely open source browser that can be built with a simple one liner from cargo. Having several…

comment by chaxor · 2024-11-19 · in DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

…"business logic" around various parts of the specification. And there's a whole folder of these. https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/main/components/layout/f... But implementing a layout engine is doable . CSS is not magic; there's a spec…

comment by btown · 2024-10-15 · in Web Browser Engineering (2021)

It seems like Servo has gotten a lot more contributions lately, after a prolonged pause. https://github.com/servo/servo/graphs/contributors

comment by zith · 2024-10-02 · in Ladybird surpassed Servo in the number of successfully passed web-platform-tests

…new tabs and surprised by RTL support because few weeks ago not supported I see there PR merged: https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/33148

comment by xlmnxp · 2024-08-31 · in This month in Servo: tabbed browsing, Windows buffs, devtools, and more

I have a branch here https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/32619 that makes this significantly better (by greatly improving flexbox support and adding CSS grid support).

comment by nicoburns · 2024-08-11 · in Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

1. The repository README doesn't explain what Servo is. From its own repo README: https://github.com/servo/servo "Servo is a prototype web browser engine written in the Rust language. It is currently developed on 64-bit macOS, 64-bit…

comment by einpoklum · 2024-08-11 · in Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine

Here's the (relatively small) commit: https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/32477/commits/d9b842ff6e... It's using the par_iter() method from Rayon, a Rust data-parallelism library: https://docs.rs/rayon/latest/rayon/iter/index.html

comment by simonw · 2024-07-31 · in Servo Web Engine Now Leverages Multiple CPU Cores for Rendering HTML Tables

Servoshell is developed here: https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/main/ports/servoshell

comment by niutech · 2024-06-27 · in Ladybird browser spreads its wings

Actually Servo development has accelerated greatly since 2023: https://github.com/servo/servo/graphs/contributors

comment by niutech · 2024-06-04 · in I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL

…in https://github.com/servo/stylo and then the layout implementation to the layout2020 crate in https://github.com/servo/servo . You do effectively get a whole browser though. I'm currently working on building a lighter weight / hackable…

comment by nicoburns · 2024-03-03 · in CSS for printing to paper

I haven't messed with it yet but from looking into it, this should absolutely work. https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Building-on-ARM-desktop-...

comment by jacoblambda · 2024-02-06 · in Mozilla's abandoned web engine 'Servo' project is getting a reboot

Now... lets hope it gets tabs support soon :) https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/30593

comment by maverick74 · 2024-01-26 · in Servo Engine Updates Bring CSS Tables and Its Browser Gets Back/Forward Buttons

…was a downtime in 2021 and 22 but since 2023, contributions look back to where it was before .. https://github.com/servo/servo/graphs/contributors

comment by WinstonSmith84 · 2024-01-24 · in An open-source browser engine written in Rust

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story by keepamovin · 2024-01-24 · 33 comments

…other languages. Like here's some example Cargo.toml files from complicated Rust projects: Servo: https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/main/Cargo.toml rust-gdext: https://github.com/godot-rust/gdext/blob/master/godot-core/C... ripgrep:…

comment by Macha · 2024-01-05 · in Modern Java/JVM Build Practices

…the differences between the two and why the decision was made to move forward with Layout 2020. https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Servo-Layout-Engines-Rep...

comment by igrunert · 2023-11-09 · in Servo announces grant from the NLnet Foundation

…engine Servo. Servo can do parallel layout in some capacity (but doesn't implement everything), https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Servo-Layout-Engines-Rep... is an interesting and recent document on the matter. Parallel layout is…

comment by padenot · 2023-10-13 · in Populating the page: how browsers work (2020)

…or because I couldn't get into reading the existing codebase easily. To each their own... [1] https://github.com/servo/servo

comment by speps · 2023-09-22 · in I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

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story by thunderbong · 2023-09-02 · 0 comments

…Ultralight ( https://ultralig.ht/ ) looks pretty cool. I think another possible option is Servo ( https://github.com/servo/servo ) – it was abandoned by Mozilla along with Rust during their layoffs a while back (but the project still seems…

comment by winter_blue · 2023-08-13 · in Ode to the M1

…an exemplar for teams thinking about undertaking or already working on migrations. Overall report: https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Servo-Layout-Engines-Rep... Feature by feature details: https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Layout-2020-a…

comment by Terretta · 2023-05-27 · in Servo, the parallel browser engine written in Rust

…how to get started contributing. In the end I think a good entry seems to tbe the Wiki on Github: https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki I would also love to have a clear overview page that shows a high level view of the state of the engine…

comment by eis · 2023-05-27 · in Servo, the parallel browser engine written in Rust

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Servo Layout Engines Report

story by Gregordinary · 2023-04-13 · 0 comments