Mozilla And Samsung To Develop A New Rendering Engine
Hopefully, it’s not made out of cheap plastic.
It seems like a new generation of rendering engines are breeding, which means pretty exciting times ahead, at least for the web browser enthusiasts like ourselves. Developers on the other hand are likely to tremble in fear.
Earlier this week, Mozilla has officially announced a new rendering engine called “Servo”, which (as we wrote back in December) is built using Rust, Mozilla’s own programming language, targeting multi core hardware.
The good news? You can now participate in Rust’s development process and get Servo engine’s source code.
The bad news? There is no schedule and according to a blog post, both companies are currently targeting Android and ARM devices only.
Update: Servo builds are also available on Mac and Linux machines.
[Thanks, Blake]
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“The bad news? There is no schedule and both companies are currently targeting mobile devices only (Android and ARM).”
Please fix this, as Servo is a multi-platform engine, Samsung assists only in the ARM part of it, x86 and x64 parts are developed by Moz only.
>We are now pleased to announce with Samsung that together we are bringing both the Rust programming language and Servo, the experimental web browser engine, to Android and ARM.
It might be but Mozilla did not say anything about bringing it to x86 and x86-64. Mozilla is working on Android part while Samsung helps with ARM, that’s what it said in that post. Everything else is speculation.
I think they meant “we are bringing the development of both the Rust programming language and Servo”
ARM development started with this, but the project Servo was in move at least a year before, and it’s pretty sure they weren’t making it for a Cell-based machine.
Where did you get the x86-64 part from?
Scuzi, maybe I mixed up things and remembered something about OdinMonkey, I’ll take a look at the things I have at hand to see it.
Aren’t Mozilla targeting multiplatform? And only Samsung HELPS in targetting ARM?
I don’t think so, at least yet. According to last year’s info (since I can’t find anything new on this subject), Firefox won’t get Servo for quite some time (if ever) and there are no Windows builds.
So it’s sort of multi platform, I guess?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.servo/nJJxEy1ehpE/discussion
> Currently what we have builds on Mac and Linux. There’s no fundamental
reason why it won’t work on Windows, but none of us have put in the
effort necessary to bring it up.
Modified the article though, thanks guys.
A beta engine, written in a beta language!
Will I be breathing when it’s ready to use?