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> Servo has been around for about a decade, so as experimental software projects go, it's a mature one. Igalia developer Manuel Rego presented a talk which reports that the project is back under active development

The talk: https://www.youtube.com/live/e3Y1C695CIw?si=dD8_tbyEezwei8As...

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Just to clarify for others that might be confused about the "about a decade": To the best of my knowledge it started in 2009. No criticism of the understatement, only to save others the look-up.

I think servo was 2011, rust itself was 9.

29th of March 2012, to be specific for Servo.

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> @brson - committed Mar 29, 2012 - 0 parents commit 4825529 - Showing 1 changed file with 1,522 additions and 0 deletions.

https://github.com/jdm/servo/commit/48255297b8958fa559d11704...

I could not find a source from 2009 but the following is from 2010 and it already mentions Servo.

http://venge.net/graydon/talks/intro-talk-2.pdf

The Wikipedia article about Rust says:

"Mozilla began sponsoring the project in 2009 as a part of the ongoing development of an experimental browser engine called Servo [..]"

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I did embed a link to it, but it looks like the start time is lost. I will try to get that put back in.

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