For those who don’t know the history, Servo was the very first Rust project to ever exist.
Back in 2012, Mozilla knew that their Gecko web engine was already getting old and unmaintainable.
One of the engineers in their R&D department Mozilla Research was quietly working on a new programming language, so they adopted that to start work on their new browser engine, Servo.
Rust v1.0 was released to the public in 2015, and was much more popular than the new browser engine it was used to create. Mozilla Research eventually gave up the idea of a new browser engine, but they did merge some of the Servo features into Gecko. Mozilla Research was shut down in 2020, and the Servo project was taken over by the Linux Foundation.
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For those who don’t know the history, Servo was the very first Rust project to ever exist.
Back in 2012, Mozilla knew that their Gecko web engine was already getting old and unmaintainable. One of the engineers in their R&D department Mozilla Research was quietly working on a new programming language, so they adopted that to start work on their new browser engine, Servo.
Rust v1.0 was released to the public in 2015, and was much more popular than the new browser engine it was used to create. Mozilla Research eventually gave up the idea of a new browser engine, but they did merge some of the Servo features into Gecko. Mozilla Research was shut down in 2020, and the Servo project was taken over by the Linux Foundation.