I'm more bothered by Servo being shifted from researching platform advancements to a speculative moonshot so soon after getting a payoff from earlier platform advancements. I don't think Servo needs drastically more Mozilla-funded resources.
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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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The sudden shift in prioritization from web compat to VR projects described in the post (https://blog.servo.org/2018/03/09/servo-and-mixed-reality/ …) belies that. "Just not a full fledged product" is the party line, not a reflection of the the technical and organizational decisions that were made by leadership.
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And I point you again at https://github.com/servo/webrender/issues/2506 … the horse's mouth as it were. "we're still planning to continue to both have the Mozilla Servo staff work on Webrender and Pathfinder and the Firefox team investigate its use inside of that product."
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WebRender in particular is on the top of the FF roadmap for performance improvements...
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But the ongoing work to reach full production quality is happening within the FF team, while Servo folks press on to things like Pathfinder. Webcompat work on parallel layout is ongoing and is needed for MR. just talked with
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Will the integrated Gecko version be used/usable by Servo?
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Patrick is still full time of Pathfinder. The plan is to integrate Pathfinder as a part of WebRender. Both Firefox and Servo use the exact same WebRender repository.
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My main hope is that Servo doesn't get behind Gecko on web compat when its own components get integrated with Gecko, because that would make future experiments in Servo harder. But this really isn't about Servo. Really sorry Servo got dragged into this.
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But not deprioritizing Pathfinder or WebRender, the two most promising remaining big pieces of Servo
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Will Gecko's WebRender implementation be shared with Servo?
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I think it's the other way around.
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Oh, I may have misunderstood. Do you mean will they share the same code repo? I don't know but I do know that integrating Servo's WebRender is a topline goal for Gecko this yar.
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I don't know what the timeline is for Pathfinder though. WebRender is something we'd love to ship this year for at least some platforms and some GPUs. See the Firefox Roadmap here https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap (note it's the first item in the document)
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