How many people are working on MR and associated projects now?
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We agree. We've periodically had "R&D" that worked much like that, where core product engineers went off to try something revolutionary. On the app side you can see it with things like project Tofino. Before R&D we had "Labs" and before that, people just made time with no org.
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And of all of those things, Research and Servo have been the closest to consistently feeding new tech to Platform. I don't think Mozilla (or Gecko) is helped by moving back towards a Labs or "make time" model. Servo's success (as you described) means more like that, plz.
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I hear ya. What more do you want from Servo in the near term? It gave us an entirely new styling and rendering engine as well as a new memory safe language. Seems like we got a couple more years at least to integrate all of that into products and see it pay off.
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@pcwalton's Pathfinder seems promising, but more generally, the work towards web-compat completion is what made WebRender and Stylo close enough to consider integrating. Keeping projects warm and resourced is cheaper than rebooting them later. -
I may be out of date but I think Pathfinder is still a priority. Did you hear that development was stopped?
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I heard (from the horse's mouth) that the entire Servo team has been "acquired" by Mixed Reality. Reams and reams of Internets back and forth make it clear that this is actually what happened and not a miscommunication of some kind. https://blog.servo.org/2018/03/09/servo-and-mixed-reality/ …
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"if we can make it work for VR, it'll be great for desktop web" has a kernel of truth, but was mostly a messaging dodge. Servo is deprioritizing finishing web compat in favor of MR.
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I'm just one person, but the way I see Servo is as R&D for things that might make it into Gecko, delivered to users in a Firefox browser. That work continues. What may not continue is turning Servo from an R&D engine into a commercially viable full web platform implementation.
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