Servo - an embeddable web rendering engine

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Servo is a Rust web engine revived in 2024 that now renders many real sites reliably where it used to crash, claiming progress on Google sign‑in, Gmail and Discord pages. A 2023 Agalia effort fixes the layout engine; the project had 1,200 contributors over its history. Current focus is a low‑friction Rust API that is embeddable with GL context and works in single‑view apps; active experiments include a Tauri backend experiment, a terminal browser port, OpenHarmony and Qt integrations, plus WebGPU/WebXR work.

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