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Incredible! That contributor stat going to 146 people is super validating for the rust ecosystem. considering servo was the original "rewrite it in rust" project that basically birthed the language. Since memory safety is the bottleneck for every other legacy engine right now, is there any reason for embedded devices to keep using stripped-down webkit instead of switching to servo at this point?

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I’m guessing the uncertainty about whether Servo will be meaningfully maintained 5 years from now is the main problem.

> is there any reason for embedded devices to keep using stripped-down webkit instead of switching to servo at this point?

I'd say Servo isn't quite there yet, but give it another year on the current trajectory and it might well be a viable option for a lot of use cases.

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