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Are there browsers that use servo; or plans to build one? If not, who is actually using servo and what for?

Verso: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41215727

Firefox has used Servo's rendering and styling components for years now.

Servo was of course based on the servo project in Mozilla. But that was discontinued years ago before that project was completed. I'm sure Mozilla still uses some of those components. But is servo actively contributing back to Mozilla at this point or is it more of a fork?

> But that was discontinued years ago before that project was completed.

IIRC purpose of Servo when it was Mozilla project was:

- Develop large scale project in rust to see pain points

- Have a test bed for pieces that would later be integrated in Firefox

In both cases project succeeded: Quantum CSS (Stylo), WebRender, and some smaller components that I don't recall. I don't think there was ever a goal of building a full consumer-grade browser, at least not within Mozilla.

There is two-way syncing of the shared components (primarily Stylo and Webrender). They are primarily maintained by Mozilla, but Servo has been contributing some changes.

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