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Comment by jakearmitage | Hacker News Reader

Building and using Servo as a library has been a huge pain. I've been waiting for improvements since https://github.com/paulrouget/servoshell was abandoned

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Same here, I thought it would have been ready for that long ago as they touted embeddability as a prominent goal, but every few months I try again, and have to give up again.

So far I’m using WebKit while I wait for libservo to be ready.

The article however is a very good explanation (as far as I can tell) of how the SpiderMonkey Javascript interpreter is linked to Servo. What I need in the first place is the layout and rendering engine, but hopefully this article will be useful for me in the future.

I've started using the web-view project (https://github.com/Boscop/web-view), with good results. Instead of embedding a browser, it uses the system's webview (Safari on macOS, gtk-webkit2 on Linux and Edge on Windows 10).

I personally haven't much work on embedding Servo, however I do think there has been some progress the last few years, Servo is being embedded in a Hololens applications(see https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/support/hololens), as well as a Magicleap application(see https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/support/magicleap).

The embedding API used can be found at https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/ports/libsimplese...

I think it's a pretty low-level embedding API, so perhaps not comparable with embedding Webkit(I have no experience with that either), it does seem to do the trick.

The problem with libsimpleservo is that it only supports one view.

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