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Ladybird seems to be the next big topic but where's the discussion around Servo? (infosec.pub)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Servo and Ladybird are both nowhere near close to daily drivable (at least for the general public), however Servos been making a ton of progress after their restart and seems much more like an actual chrome competitor then Ladybird. So why do I never see it talked about while Ladybird seems to be the next big topic here?

Keep in mind I do think these are both amazing projects and I really hope they can co-exist

Edit: Looks like the main reasoning is Servo's focus on being embedded while Ladybird promises a fully functional browser

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[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mostly because Servo is just the web rendering engine. It still needs a browser built on top of it.

[–] Steve@communick.news 28 points 5 months ago

They have a functioning "light weight" browser people can use for testing. And honestly, wrapping all the browser features around an engine, is very much the easy part. That's why there are so many browsers with so few rendering engines.