Servo 2025 Stats (blogs.igalia.com)

I wonder, seeing the immense growth in 2023/2024, how that correlates with the ladybird project, which officially started in 2024.

Could Manifest v3 be the reason we have so much fresh air blowing in the browser ecosystem or does it just stem from a general unhappiness of said ecosystem?

Exciting times.

Are we at the point yet where someone can use something other than a major headless browser (firefox, chrome) for converting html to PDFs without huge css gotchas?

Is there any comparison/ are we x yet reviewing alternative browser engines being developed? It seems like there's quite a few in active development at this point.

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?

Maybe that was explained in Rego's September talk [1] but went over my head, but how does Igalia steer Servo? I can understand that when the project was under Mozilla, there were people primarily from, or tied to Mozilla keeping it afloat. Since Igalia is a _consulting_ agency, I don't suppose they work on code themselves, so what do they do to, well, attract new people and keep existing contributors in the loop?

[1]: https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-a-new-web-engine-writte...

I think it would be completely usable by end of next year? so excited!!

How usable is Servo nowadays? I remember trying it like 3 years ago (exploring it for integration for a dashboard where Chromium was too heavy), and most websites had major rendering or usability problems to the point that I abandoned the idea.

As an Australian, I'm disappointed this isn't an article about the amount of fuel, margins, cars, etc at a servo (yanks call them "gas stations").

For anyone else confused (as the linked page doesn't describe it at all:

> Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.

It appears to be a browser engine embeddable in other applications, I assume for delivering content designed to run in a browser for some reason.

if anyone at igalia is reading: there's a typo in a caption: "Evolution of GitHub stars for Servo from start-history.com" should be star-history.

This is good to see! Ultimately a FOSS project lives or dies on contributors and contributions from them. Seeing this grow is a sign of health and for servo this is great to see!