Servo VS tauri

I pulled last changes to see the new tabs and surprised by RTL support because few weeks ago not supported

I see there PR merged: https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/33148

Don’t think this really fits in with HN guidelines.

Seriously, check out https://servo.org , they post monthly updates and the progress seems great. And their repo, too - too bad GitHub can’t display code frequency because there’s too many commits in the project.

Here's the (relatively small) commit: https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/32477/commits/d9b842ff6e...

It's using the par_iter() method from Rayon, a Rust data-parallelism library: https://docs.rs/rayon/latest/rayon/iter/index.html

Rust is definitely used in Firefox, but Servo[0], which was going to be the replacement browser engine (or at least the testbed for that), was abandoned by Mozilla, in a limbo for some time and now under new stewardship.

On a meta-level, I think the story that people like to tell is that Mozilla chose increasing executive compensation rather than using the same money to keep the Servo (and people working on Rust itself) employed.

[0]: https://servo.org

The following Mastodon toot is about https://servo.org that could become another alternative. Quote :

"Servo is faaaar from ready for general use yet, but it's picking up development speed. Definitely an option to keep an eye on for the future. "

Why is Ladybird getting so much attention. Has anyone herd of servo? They're trying to offload css rendering to the gpu. That could be a big deal in the long run.

https://servo.org/

Does anyone know, how it compares to Servo?

https://servo.org/

Check what is happening in Servo (https://servo.org). Some active members also want something very modular, and this is helped by work being actively done to use the engine in various contexts.

I use memory saver on Chrome and it helps substantially but Chrome just doesn't feel right. It might be the most secure browser out there but performance is lacking. Modern software should be more efficient than this. There is open-source Rust browser engine in the making called Servo (https://servo.org/), I hope they eventually come up with more efficient browser.

I'd really like to see it compared to Tauri [0] which is the established leader in this space.

0: https://tauri.app

Consider hybrid desktop applications using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS as a view via the webview. Go Wails, a very performant desktop development framework, is based on this idea. Similarly, Rust Tauri apps operate on this principle.

- the only thing that tripped me up, was that re-building the project didnt't work due to an colliding filename error, but I found a closed issue at their https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/10192 which pointed me towards removing `rlib` from the crate-type, which solved that issue.

All in all quite a smooth experience, was done in an 1-2 hours or something, not sure.

tauri-apps/tauri: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri :

> The user interface in Tauri apps currently leverages tao as a window handling library on macOS, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS. To render your application, Tauri uses WRY, a library which provides a unified interface to the system webview, leveraging WKWebView on macOS & iOS, WebView2 on Windows, WebKitGTK on Linux and Android System WebView on Android. ... Tauri GitHub action: https://tauri.app/v1/guides/building/cross-platform/#tauri-g...

CEF: Chromium Embedded Framework > External Projects: https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/src/master/README... : cefglue, cefpython: https://github.com/cztomczak/cefpython

ChromiumGtk WebView.cs ; cefglue: https://github.com/lunixo/ChromiumGtk/blob/main/Lunixo.Chrom...

Tauri[0] is another HTML/CSS/JS-converter that generates small binaries by relying on the presence of WebView. Works pretty well.

[0] https://tauri.app

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There's also Tauri which takes a similar approach but uses Rust. I've had good luck with it so far.

https://tauri.app/

https://servo.org/ is seeing new development alongside https://tauri.app/ which seems like it could replace Electron, getting them a little closer to native speed and memory usage.

It'd be nice to see more and more of Servo integrated into Firefox. Web pages rendered at 120fps and fewer memory leaks in long-lived many-tabbed browser sessions would be lovely.

-- Tauri website