Servo in 2023

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A revived Servo is a Rust web engine with GPU rasterization and continued layout parallelism that claims full memory safety versus C++ engines, and its style engine already ships inside Gecko as WebRender. It runs JavaScript via SpiderMonkey, targets being a lightweight embeddable webview, and focuses now on fragmentation-aware layout, iframes, navigation, and easier contribution through better docs and simpler code. Nightly builds exist, community work continues, and recent NLnet funding supports embedding and platform ports.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:29How old is your browser?
3. 2:30Servo in 2012
4. 5:39Servo in 2023
5. 6:48Building Web Engines in 2023
6. 8:42Goals

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