Servo (software)

Servo
Servo
	Servo shell rendering this page
Original author(s)	Mozilla Corporation
Developer(s)	Linux Foundation Europe and volunteers
Repository	github.com/servo/servo ;
Written in	Rust
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Browser engine
License	MPL 2.0
Website	servo.org

Servo is an experimental^[4] browser engine designed to take advantage of the memory safety properties and concurrency features of the Rust programming language. It seeks to create a highly parallel environment, in which rendering, layout, HTML parsing, image decoding, and other engine components are handled by fine-grained, isolated tasks.^[5]^[6] It also makes use of GPU acceleration to render web pages quickly and smoothly.^[7]^[8]

Servo has always been a research project. It began at the Mozilla Corporation in 2012, and its employees did the bulk of the work until 2020.^[9] This included the Quantum project, when portions of Servo were incorporated into the Gecko engine of Firefox.^[10]^[4]

After Mozilla laid off all Servo developers in 2020,^[9] governance of the project was transferred to Linux Foundation Europe.^[1] Development work officially continues at the same GitHub repository with the project itself entirely volunteer driven.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference linux foundation was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b "Servo code commit log". GitHub. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
^ "servo/LICENSE". GitHub. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Servo engines written in Rust deliver memory safety and multithreading". Mozilla Research. Archived from the original on 11 June 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
^ Moffitt, Jack (17 April 2014). "Another Big Milestone for Servo—Acid2". Retrieved 26 November 2015.
^ "Servo Continues Pushing Forward". servo.org. 1 May 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2015.
^ Bergstrom, Lars. "Mozilla's Project Quantum and Servo". mozilla.dev.servo - Google Groups. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
^ Clark, Lin (10 October 2017). "The whole web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank". Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference 2020 layoff was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "Quantum". Mozilla Wiki. Retrieved 20 April 2017.

[linux_foundation-1] Cite error: The named reference linux foundation was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[commit_log-2] "Servo code commit log". GitHub. Retrieved 30 April 2021.

[3] "servo/LICENSE". GitHub. Retrieved 5 December 2018.

[:0-4] "Servo engines written in Rust deliver memory safety and multithreading". Mozilla Research. Archived from the original on 11 June 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2020.

[acid2-5] Moffitt, Jack (17 April 2014). "Another Big Milestone for Servo—Acid2". Retrieved 26 November 2015.

[6] "Servo Continues Pushing Forward". servo.org. 1 May 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2015.

[7] Bergstrom, Lars. "Mozilla's Project Quantum and Servo". mozilla.dev.servo - Google Groups. Retrieved 9 November 2016.

[8] Clark, Lin (10 October 2017). "The whole web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank". Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog. Retrieved 22 October 2017.

[2020_layoff-9] Cite error: The named reference 2020 layoff was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[QuantWiki-10] "Quantum". Mozilla Wiki. Retrieved 20 April 2017.

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