The Last Two Years of Servo DevelopmentPermalink

Manuel Rego Casasnovas:

As many of you already know, Igalia took over the maintenance of the Servo project in January 2023. We’ve been working hard on bringing the project back to life again, and this blog post is a summary of our achievements so far.

Nothing sums it up better than this chart:

A chart showing contributors and pull requests to the servo project. There is a big dip around 2021 and 2022, but the activity has resumed in 2023, 2024.
Nice to see the return of development activity.

I sometimes see people wishing there was a browser that was independent of advertising companies and big tech, implemented in a language that doesn’t result in a constant stream of CVEs. Servo could be that. The project exists, and is already a long way along. It just needs the support of more people and organisations. They’re aiming for US$10,000 per month and are currently sitting at US$4291. Mozilla won’t let us fund Firefox, but it is easy to donate to Servo, which I’m doing each month.

Linked List rendered in Servo running on Windows
Linked List rendered in Servo running on Windows.