Recently the news was released that Mozilla has donated the Servo project to the Linux Foundation (a non-profit organization that oversees a wide range of Linux development work).
At the same time, a change in project management methods was announced: Technical and management committees will be created to make decisions and develop a development strategy.
Of the plans that they have for their own Servo, is that this will evolve as a standalone browser engine. Main development goals will remain the same- Provide a safe, high-performance engine for integration into other applications.
"The Linux Foundation's track record for hosting and supporting the world's most ubiquitous open source technologies makes it the natural home for growing the Servo community and increasing support for its platform," said Alan Jeffrey, technical president of the Servo project. . "There is a lot of development work and opportunities for our Servo Technical Steering Committee to consider, and we know that this model of open source collaboration between industries will allow us to accelerate the highest priorities for web developers."
A technical committee will be responsible for achieving these objectives. and it will also help engage the community of stakeholders in development.
After moving to the Linux Foundation wing, the project is no longer dependent on a particular commercial companyWhich facilitates the union of the development of different companies to work together on the project. Companies, communities and organizations such as Futurewei, Let's Encrypt, Mozilla, Samsung and Three.js have already announced their support for the project.
"Mozilla is a champion of the open source movement, working to unite passionate communities to create software that keeps the Internet open and accessible to all," said Adam Seligman, Mozilla's chief operating officer. "We are pleased to see Servo graduate from Mozilla and move on to the Linux Foundation, where we know this technology will continue to thrive and drive web-based innovation in the future."
"Servo is the most promising, modern and open web engine for creating immersive applications and experiences using web technologies, and that has a lot to do with the Rust programming language," said Mike Dolan, senior vice president and general manager of projects. at the Linux Foundation. "We are excited to support and maintain this important work for decades to come."
As a reminder and for those unfamiliar with Servo, they should know that this is a browser engine which was developed by Mozilla in collaboration with Samsung.
The engine is written in the Rust language and it is distinguished by the compatibility with the multithreaded representation of web pages, as well as the parallelization of operations with DOM (Document Object Model).
In addition to efficiently parallelize operations, encoding technologies Rust Secure can dramatically increase the level of security by solving current security issues.
Initially, the Firefox browser engine was unable to fully exploit the potential of modern multi-core systems due to the initial use of single-threaded content processing schemes.
Using Rust allows you to divide your DOM and rendering code into smaller subtasks They can run in parallel and make more efficient use of multi-core CPU resources. Firefox has already integrated Servo developments like a multi-threaded CSS engine and the WebRender rendering system.
In 2012, Mozilla started Servo project (a community effort to create a new open source browser engine that can take advantage of multi-core hardware to improve speed, stability, and responsiveness).
Rust and Servo were both hatched by Mozilla, and the next step for Servo is through the Linux Foundation.
Finally, if you want to know more about the news, you can consult the original note published on the Linux Foundation blog In the following link.