Work on the alternative browser engine Servo is scheduled to continue this year. The team behind the open source project surprisingly announced this in a blog post. Thanks to “new external funding,” a development team can continue the work, the text says. However, the team does not reveal who is behind the unexpected money blessing.
As a first step, they want to reactivate the project and its community in order to find as many more supporters and donors as possible. Then they want to devote themselves to the layout system and first of all get the basic CSS2 layout up and running. The announcement contains more information not, but the Servo team promises more updates over the course of the year.
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Servo is an open source project developing an alternative Rust-based browser engine. The project was initiated by Mozilla in 2012, but was then rejected in 2020 and officially handed over to the Linux Foundation. At that time, the team wrote in the blog that they had “left the nest” and were happy to have found a new home. But they don’t want to change anything about the orientation and ambitious goals – until the now published comeback announcement, however, there was radio silence on the part of the project.
(jvo)
