Servo (software)

Servo
Original author(s)Mozilla Corporation
Developer(s)Linux Foundation and volunteers[1][2]
Repository
Written inRust
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeBrowser engine
LicenseMPL 2.0[3]
Websiteservo.org Edit this on Wikidata

Servo is an experimental browser engine designed to take advantage of the memory safety properties and concurrency features of the Rust programming language. It seeks to create a highly parallel environment, in which rendering, layout, HTML parsing, image decoding, and other engine components are handled by fine-grained, isolated tasks.[4][5] It also makes use of GPU acceleration to render web pages quickly and smoothly.[6][7]

Servo has always been a research project. It began at the Mozilla Corporation in 2012, and its employees did the bulk of the work until 2020.[8] This included the Quantum project, when portions of Servo were incorporated into the Gecko engine of Firefox.[9][10]

After Mozilla laid off all Servo developers in 2020,[8] governance of the project was transferred to the Linux Foundation.[1] Development work officially continues at the same GitHub repository with the project itself entirely volunteer driven.[2]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference linux foundation was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b "Servo code commit log". GitHub. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  3. ^ "servo/LICENSE". GitHub. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  4. ^ Moffitt, Jack (17 April 2014). "Another Big Milestone for Servo—Acid2". Retrieved 26 November 2015.
  5. ^ "Servo Continues Pushing Forward". servo.org. 1 May 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
  6. ^ Bergstrom, Lars. "Mozilla's Project Quantum and Servo". mozilla.dev.servo - Google Groups. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
  7. ^ Clark, Lin (10 October 2017). "The whole web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank". Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
  8. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference 2020 layoff was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ "Quantum". Mozilla Wiki. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  10. ^ "Servo engines written in Rust deliver memory safety and multithreading". Mozilla Research. Retrieved 5 July 2020.

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