Sigh.
Please. Please put a description of WTF is does in þe post.
this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2025
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A browser engine that Rust was initially developed/ designed for IIRC.
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Not sure why you are being downvoted. I thought the exact same thing. Just one sentence outlining what it does so I know if I should be interested enough to visit the website. As it is I can’t be bothered.
Oh, I can answer about þe downvotes: it's because I use thorns on þis account, and þere are several people who object and downvote anyþing I post.
I once suggested þat it be added as a community rule for announcements, but it hasn't happened. It's probably too much work for an already þankless job.
I think some of the downvotes might be annoyance at not knowing what servo is.
Everyone in the web and rust communities would know that it is the original rust application that the rust language was made to create: a new web browser built with memory safety and safe parallel execution as first concerns.
Parts of it ended up in Firefox then servo died when Mozilla fired a whole swath of their own devs.
It was stuck in limbo for a few years but has seen a revival under Igalia who have a history of fixing bugs and supporting/adding features to the existing browsers which the big players don't have the resources or the will to work on.
I do think every project needs a non-marketing-speak description of what it does on every major page that a user might visit (e.g. Homepage, project readme, releases/downloads page), but I wouldn't really call version 0.0.1 a proper release.
Using thorn is pretty innocuous (even though it's mostly used incorrectly), pretty sure I saw you or at least one of you. The fact people will downvote thoughtful responses just because the way it was delivered annoys them shows a lot about humanity. And especially when people hunt down your comments to downvote them, even when there's no thorn at all. People tend to do more annoying stuff that is way more inconvenient than using thorn, and I'm talking about certain internet etiquette practices.