Browsers need to be fast & safe to survive competition. @rustlang finally makes it feasible to aim for both without breaking your neck. 
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Rust may be the greatest thing since sliced bread. But talk is cheap, & Servo's performance today is far from impressive to the average user
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The last time I checked Servo’s WebRender was pretty fast. Incomplete, sure. But fast, no? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11175258 … cc
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Replying to @regexident
Well that post is over 1yr old… Try downloading Servo nightly & loading Reddit & resizing the window. That's what I mean by talk is cheap.
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Or if "resizing the window" is somehow unfair, just look at the quality of the rendered page. Or try to focus any text field and enter text.
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And I'd say Chrome is rendering Reddit perfectly, nearly instantaneously, and about 3x as fast as the Servo nightly.
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Parallel rendering works and is a big win. I’ve verified this over and over again. It would be foolish to not go after it.
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Replying to @pcwalton @regexident
I defer to your expertise and I wish you success! But I also wish there were some tangible, usable product that demonstrated this benefit.
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Replying to @iTod @regexident
More immediate wins is why Stylo—the Gecko branch that integrates Servo styling—exists and is under active development.
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Heh, was about to mention those efforts, earlier. Ordinary users of Firefox are making use of quite a couple of parts from Servo already.
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Refusing to do anything hard isn’t a winning strategy unless you’re the incumbent, which Firefox isn’t.
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Replying to @pcwalton @regexident
Anyway, I look forward to u proving me wrong, & producing the most cutting-edge browser. Your tech is super interesting, & I wish you luck!
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