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Awesome! I've been tire kicking their nightlys. I was thinking about building a "browser" but really mean just wrapping an engine. With the shakeup at M I was nervous that Servo would die, it's got a lot of promise. This is great news. Now, thoughts on a UI framework for Rust?

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My personal opinion is that, for a servo based browser, it's probably better to just use UWP/C++ on Windows, C/GTK on Linux, and SwiftUI on Mac, and just embed Servo via its C-API layer.

Rust shine when it comes to building a safe and fast web engine. For the OS "glue" code, I would stick to whatever is best for each platform.

You missed Android. Firefox for mobile is so far behind Chrome, it’s unusable for me, most plugins don’t work.

I would vote for HTML/CSS based browser (React / React Native?), though I know that a lot of operating system specific code needs to be written.

The C API has JNI bindings, which is relevant to Android. https://github.com/servo/servo/tree/master/ports/libsimplese...

I find Firefox more usable than Chrome on Android. uBlock Origin works perfectly, and that's part of the reason.

I tried to install Google Translate extension and it was not supported. So when I have to choose between Google Translate or adblocking, it's already bad for me, as I like to use both of them on the PC.

I use kiwi which provide uBlock Origin for chromium

Chrome on Android doesn't even have plugins and never will.

You can with e.g kiwi browser

UWP now has first-class Rust bindings.

https://azul.rs/ Maybe?

Neat! Thanks for this!

I'm not sure azul is being actively developed any more; the repo looks a bit tumbleweedy.

The best place if you want to keep tabs on this area is probably https://www.areweguiyet.com/

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