It's amazing to see actual effort taking place to build a new browser engine from scratch.
I would say that since the late 90ies, there hasn't been a single new engine being made. Everything we have now is a development based on KHTML, Gecko, Presto or Trident.
By now, HTML and the standards surrounding it have become so big that starting from a blank slate nowadays is next to impossible. The existing engines have it much easier as they are allowed to grow with the spec, but a new engine has to do everything from scratch.
This makes it even more impressive to see how far Servo is already (yes. I know - there's probably some overlap with some existing Mozilla code, but still).
Huge congrats to everyone involved. We need unafraid visionaries like you people to actually move the web forward.
I would say that since the late 90ies, there hasn't been a single new engine being made. Everything we have now is a development based on KHTML, Gecko, Presto or Trident.
By now, HTML and the standards surrounding it have become so big that starting from a blank slate nowadays is next to impossible. The existing engines have it much easier as they are allowed to grow with the spec, but a new engine has to do everything from scratch.
This makes it even more impressive to see how far Servo is already (yes. I know - there's probably some overlap with some existing Mozilla code, but still).
Huge congrats to everyone involved. We need unafraid visionaries like you people to actually move the web forward.