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eugeneionesco

Why? Servo is just a proof of concept, it won't be the future of Firefox.

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It's definitely not a proof of concept.

> Our long-term plan is to:

> - Incrementally replace components in Gecko with ones written in Rust and shared with Servo.

> - Determine product opportunities for a standalone Servo browser or embeddable library (e.g., for Android).

https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap

Servo is definitely going places but it's not Firefox. It's not looking to be a Gecko replacement, and Gecko is too deeply embedded in FF to swap it out. Sharing code sounds like a good idea though.

For example, another Mozilla intern I know is working on the project to replace Gecko's CSS style system with Servo's (Stylo).

Check the "Oxidation" page on the wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation

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