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One year of sponsored Servo development

358 points · 144 comments · AshleysBrain

  1. QwenGlazer9000 · · focus · HN ↗
    I'm glad we have an alternative to ladybird, since I haven't been a fan of the direction of the project for a bit.
    1. edgyquant · · focus · HN ↗
      Would also be interested to hear why. Personally I used to watch serenityOS and only recently relooked into it to see the main guy was no longer leading it but working on ladybird full time
      1. bryanlarsen · · focus · HN ↗
        They announced they are doing an AI assisted rewrite of parts of their code into Rust. That would alienate some.

        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ladybird.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;adopting-rust&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ladybird.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;adopting-rust&#x2F;

        Myself, my annoyance with Ladybird is that restarted everything from scratch. There are components of servo that are really good and basically complete. Why not use those components and concentrate on the components where you have design conflicts with Servo?

        1. speedstyle · · focus · HN ↗
          An AI-assisted rewrite can make sense, if you take the time to uphold semantics and code quality, as they suggested. In practice, the first file I looked in had unsound unsafe – in the Rust sense, that a safe caller could cause UB, not that any callers do so – in fact there are no callers, the functionality was removed from the C++ bindings in a 1400-file changeset but left in the associated Rust module.
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