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I'm struggling to see the logical throughline that connects your comment to mine, or even how it relates to itself.

Gecko was originally conceived to be embeddable by design. TPTB decided this was a handicap. It's not an accident that it's hard to work with outside the context that is its modern raison d'être; it is now unembeddable, if not "by design" then certainly by choice.

Servo is not a product, and there is no product for which Servo is an integral component. Servo was an R&D project. It succeeded. Mozilla laid off a bunch of Servo developers, partly because of COVID, and partly because it was (past) done; it doesn't make sense to keep paying for R&D at Servo's stage. It's debatable whether it's even R&D at that point—more like wankery/noodling (i.e. what most programmers want to do, but that the world already has enough of).

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