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What is the current goal with Servo? The last time I felt well informed, I think it was described as just a research project, with zero intention to ever supplant Firefox. Is that still the case? There seems to be an awful lot of promise and effort if there's no plans to make it a production ready browser.

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Our official roadmap/goals for Servo are here: https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap

So, it's definitely no longer "just a research project," but the challenges of finding initial product targets and building out the rest of the Web Platform are definitely large ones!

At worst firefox will use some of the libraries that come out of servo. Firefox is supposed to use the url parser from servo by 2016.

Here's the patch that's tracking adding Servo's Rust-based URL parser to Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1151899

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