webrender VS bottlerocket

This source code:

https://github.com/servo/webrender/blob/master/wr_glyph_rast...

suggests to me that the glyph rasterization (which is the CPU-limiting factor for text rendering) in WebRender (which is the new FF 93+ GPU-accelerated rendering engine) is implemented in Rust and to be run on CPU.

Both Servo and Fifefox make use of webrender, which is an awesome piece of tech and is well suited to render a web page. Some GUI projects attempted to use webrender directly as well, like Azul and moxie-native

Surprised noone mentioned https://github.com/servo/webrender

Firefox article outlining which parts use Rust https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation#Within_Firefox Servo/WebRender, the 2d renderer used by firefox: https://github.com/servo/webrender

Hi, what do you think about using webrender instead of wry on desktop? That is, instead of a full featured browser, just the bare minimum to render the DOM.

This is in the context of rust.

> it adds a line to a `go.sum` while with a hash of the code at the version specified

Cargo.lock also contains a checksum

> You can distribute your code without a copy of the dependency

Also true in rust, and the default way of using rust.

> If the hashes are different, an error is thrown.

Also true in rust.

For an example of what this looks like: https://github.com/servo/webrender/blob/54b725be37f13b166946...

You haven't described anything different between go and rust in your comment since every feature you've pointed out applies equally to both.

Yes! This is because web browsers use the platform text input stack

Browsers are a great example of cross-platform UI, because they sprinkle platform-native widgets throughout the canvas that they render. Which reminds me that people were trying to use webrender[1] to build native apps in Rust.

[1] https://github.com/servo/webrender

What more can be done, besides site isolation and ASLR+DEP? Oh wait, Mozilla rewrote the damn renderer in a better language than C(++), that seems like a good way to prevent issues.

According to this discussion - starting with Bottlerocket 1.13.0 (Mar 2023) new distributions will default to using Cgroups v2 interface for process organization and enforcing resource limits.

Well, the link I provided references the Bottlerocket docs which explains the control container and the admin container and also how you can configure Bottlerocket via the User Data field when launching it as an AMI. All the information appears to be in the docs

https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop...

On the server-side, there's Bottlerocket OS [1] (Amazon). They use A/B partitions for upgrades, and the idea is that you just run containers for anything non-base. Boot containers are used to do custom configuration at boot, and host-container (or DaemonSet, if you run K8S) is used for long-running services.

[1] https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket

Bottlerocket OS.

To add to the other excellent answers, I would recommend adding Bottlerocket to your reading list: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket#readme

I'm also aware of (but haven't used) https://github.com/siderolabs/talos#readme

I just realized your question may have implied a desktop os, whereas Bottlerocket, Flatcar, and likely the others in this specific thread are server-side. I don't have much experience with trying to solve that problem on the desktop except for the horror-show that is snap

https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/issues/2855 soon for bottlerocket, maybe you’ll see Amazon Linux 2023 for eks nodes soon too?

I think open sourcing for free labor is a common misconception. Most corporate led open source projects (eg, https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket from AWS or https://github.com/facebook/relay from Facebook) still require a team of employees.

Bottlerocket might be worth a look. https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket