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Whether it's something like this, or ladybird's engine, I'm happy there is work being made in this space.

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Personally I'm more optimistic about Servo - because originating at Mozilla, I imagine more web browser experience and expertise went into its architecture, and also because Rust.

nicoburns|4 months ago

> originating at Mozilla, I imagine more web browser experience and expertise went into its architecture

Andreas Kling who created Ladybird had prior experience working on KHTML/WebKit so there is expertise there too.

ricardobeat|4 months ago

I don't know.. Servo has been in development for a decade and still has quite underwhelming performance and UX. The binary is 100MB+ on Mac, scrolling is janky, a google image search takes 10+ seconds to render and goes through very buggy states. Meanwhile Ladybird renders a legacy UI, but feels really fast and stable.

F3nd0|4 months ago

I’m more hopeful about Servo because it’s released under a copyleft licence, whereas Ladybird chose a pushover one.

ionelaipatioaei|4 months ago

I think Ladybird will beat Servo at making an usable and good product, Mozilla might have more resources but that's not the only thing that you need if you want to build great software.