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Ask HN: What web browser engines are under active development?

10 points| Shank | 5 years ago | reply

With the recent layoffs at Mozilla, I'm wondering quite simply: which browser engines are actively being developed, and which browsers are using them? From what I understand, we're just left with WebKit, Gecko, and Blink?

Are there any other engines in active development?

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[+] _zzaw|5 years ago|reply
There's something called Servo, although from what I understand, it's not going to be presenting any mainstream competition to Chrome any time soon.

https://servo.org/

[+] shakna|5 years ago|reply
Most of the team were laid off [0], Servo was a Mozilla project. They're still reeling, but it looks like Mozilla will be moving their efforts to Firefox proper, rather than integrating the best parts of Servo into Firefox.

[0] https://github.com/servo/servo/discussions/27575

[+] shakna|5 years ago|reply
lynx is still under active development, so that might count. It uses a fork of libwww as the engine.

Goanna is a fork of Gecko for Pale Moon, but development is slow.

KHTML is basically in maintainence-only, but is WebKit's ancestor.