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Comment by Manishearth | Hacker News Reader

We spent a significant amount of effort in the last year and a half working on a redesigned modular/parallel layout subsystem.

The VR focus was because it was a good way to get servo out to end users early without needing to be fully web compat -- WebXR doesn't require complex layout. We didn't drop our focus on full web compat during this, but full web compat has always been a more long term goal given how complex the web platform is.

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WebXR is also completely inane. What users are you "shipping" to? A tenth of a tenth of a tenth of a tenth of a percent of internet users?

You have a massive effort ahead of you, and you won't get there by chasing distractions. You need to have a singular focus if you're going to accomplish this goal.

They're not interested in "[providing] an independent, modular, embeddable web engine," they're interested in writing software in Rust and having their name associated with a Mozilla/Linux Foundation project. Go look at their governance.[1]

Their webpage tells you what they really care about, and it isn't embedding.

[1]: https://servo.org/governance/tsc/readme/

It seems more than a bit presumptuous to tell open source maintainers what they “need to” do.

If they announced tomorrow they’d decided to focus all their efforts on using Rust to calculate digits of pi, that’s their perogative.

As a prolific creator with a strong sense of vision for your projects, I’d have expected this to be obvious.

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