Rego’s Everyday Life
As many of you already know, Igalia took over the maintenance of the Servo project in January 2023. We’ve been working hard on bringing the project back to life again, and this blog post is a summary of our achievements so far.
Servo is an experimental browser engine created by Mozilla in 2012. From the very beginning, it was developed alongside the Rust language, like a showcase for the new language that Mozilla was developing. Servo has always aimed to be a performant and secure web rendering engine, as those are also main characteristics of the Rust language.
Mozilla was the main force behind Servo’s development for many years, with some other companies like Samsung collaborating too. Some of Servo’s components, like Stylo and WebRender, were adopted and used in Firefox releases by 2017, and continue to be used there today.
In 2020, Mozilla laid off the whole Servo team, and the project moved to the Linux Foundation. Despite some initial interest in the project, by the end of 2020 there was barely any active work on the project, and 2021 and 2022 weren’t any better. At that point, many considered the Servo project to be abandoned.
