In August of this year, Mozilla announced 25% layoffs , which happened to include the developers of the Servo team. Servo is an experimental browser engine developed using Rust. Compared with other browser engines, Servo has advantages in memory safety, speed and concurrency.
During the Firefox Quantum era, Servo has been used as the CSS parsing engine of Firefox. Up to now, Firefox has integrated multiple Servo components. After years of incubation in Mozilla, Servo has proved that important web components (such as CSS engine and rendering) can also be implemented using Rust. So Mozilla suddenly cut the Servo team and surprised many people. Will this project be terminated?
Servo recently announced that it has been hosted by the Linux Foundation. This move has brought about changes in project governance. The Foundation will set up a board of directors and a technical steering committee to guide the future of the project. See https://github.com/servo for details /project/ .
Servo stated that the goal of the project remains unchanged: to provide a high-performance, secure rendering engine that can be embedded in other applications. The responsibility of the Technical Steering Committee is to provide guidance for these goals and enable the wider Servo community to make meaningful contributions to advance this mission.
Mike Dolan, senior vice president and project general manager of the Linux Foundation, believes that Servo is the "most promising, most modern, and most open Web engine" for building applications using Web technology. He pointed out that this has a lot to do with Rust, and the Linux Foundation also hopes to support and maintain this important work in the coming decades.