June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more (servo.org)

Does anyone actually use Servo for anything?

Congrats on the new release. Anything that creates more competition in the browser space has my support. I was hyped about Ladybird but their recent adoption of LLMs and going source-available only has put a bit of a dent in it.

The last few times I've tried to build Servo it's failed for me. (It's also one the very few rust projects that have ever failed to build for me).

I've repeatedly said this almost year after year, but Servo is not a "real" project. It's weird, but whatever the case is, after it left Mozilla, it has clearly oriented around being governance focused and not helping actual embedded browser engineers.

You don't have to believe me, just look at their track record and ask yourself why no one embeds it in anything after, what, a decade or more?

Wonder how long it will take before they can render PDFjs? That is a hard target admittedly.

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Near the end of each month, I get super excited for these blogs. Congrats on another release!

The very first link in the post is broken. The correct link is:-

https://github.com/servo/servo/releases/tag/0.4.0

Prior releases included a preceding 'v' in the version but not this one for some reason.

What exactly are the curmudgeons in this thread getting out of this?

They are going to do all this work and then adopt the wrong tech or try and make money in the wrong way and end up with their only viable userbase constantly eternally talking them.