Are you including servo, which says it has been entirely repurposed as an MR vehicle?
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BTW, Servo's major advancements have been or are being incorporated into Gecko. See Stylo (Quantum Style) and WebRender (Quantum Render). https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum We're working on getting all that goodness into desktop and mobile Firefoxen.
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I'm well aware of that. More effort on those advancements was deprioritized in favor of turning Servo into an AR vehicle.
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I'm curious why you think Servo is such an important investment compared to say Gecko which is Mozilla's only viable implementation of the web. You seem bothered at Servo's deprioritization, and not at all concerned about the state of Gecko which is chronically underfunded, IMO.
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I am concerned about Gecko underfunding. What would you estimate the total budget of Gecko engineering (the old "Platform" team) to be?
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Replying to @wycats @asadotzler and
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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What is it that you want Servo to be?
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What it has been: a pipeline for risky web platform experiments that can make their web back into Gecko to make Gecko better. I don't particularly see any reason why good Gecko engineers couldn't take some time away from the grind to prototype ideas.
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Replying to @wycats @asadotzler and
I think things aren’t as zero-sum as you’re suggesting here; Servo devs I talk to are doing similar work as before, but with bigger ambitions. I also think having a near-term product outlet for Servo, where it’s advantages are amplified, is great.
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Replying to @aaron_turon @wycats and
Similarly, I think one by-product of the MR target is some pressure to get Servo’s mobile story up to snuff, and to build a stronger embedding story for *both* Servo and Gecko, which also has mobile potential.
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Regardless of everything else I've said in this conversation, I'm extremely excited that Servo has a customer!
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