Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations

1. webusb

   1 16 1,391 4.3 Bikeshed

   Connecting hardware to the web.

   

2. ReSharper

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   ReSharper is now available in VS Code and Cursor. ReSharper brings a professional toolset for C# developers backed by over 20 years of experience, enterprise-grade security, SOC 2 compliance, and the trust of companies worldwide.

   

3. standards-positions

   2 44 317 8.9 Python

   WebKit's positions on emerging web specifications (by WebKit)

   

4. web-nfc

   3 8 333 3.0 HTML

   Web NFC

   

5. standards-positions

   4 257 753 5.3 HTML

   

6. quickjs

   5 84 10,684 9.3 C

   Public repository of the QuickJS Javascript Engine.

   

   And some lightweight alternatives like Bellard's QuickJS (https://bellard.org/quickjs/) in C and Kiesel (https://kiesel.dev/) in Zig.

7. web-to-desktop-framework-comparison

   6 16 1,948 7.6 JavaScript

   An objective comparison of multiple frameworks that allow us to "transform" our web apps to desktop applications.

   

   I mean, most OSes already ship with a WebView component that you can use instead of shipping an entire browser runtime.

   Wails does that: https://wails.io/

   Tauri also does that: https://tauri.app/

   That does help with the needed resources quite a bit: https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...

   Sadly it doesn’t change the memory usage much so the technology is still inherently wasteful, but on a certain level it feels like a lost battle - because web technologies often feel like the choice of least resistance when you want GUI software that will run on a bunch of platforms while not being annoying to develop (from the perspective of your run of the mill dev).

8. tauri

   7 537 107,449 9.7 Rust

   Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile applications with a web frontend.

   

   I mean, most OSes already ship with a WebView component that you can use instead of shipping an entire browser runtime.

   Wails does that: https://wails.io/

   Tauri also does that: https://tauri.app/

   That does help with the needed resources quite a bit: https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...

   Sadly it doesn’t change the memory usage much so the technology is still inherently wasteful, but on a certain level it feels like a lost battle - because web technologies often feel like the choice of least resistance when you want GUI software that will run on a bunch of platforms while not being annoying to develop (from the perspective of your run of the mill dev).

9. SaaSHub

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10. web-to-desktop-framework-compariso

    8 8 - -

    I mean, most OSes already ship with a WebView component that you can use instead of shipping an entire browser runtime.

    Wails does that: https://wails.io/

    Tauri also does that: https://tauri.app/

    That does help with the needed resources quite a bit: https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-compariso...

    Sadly it doesn’t change the memory usage much so the technology is still inherently wasteful, but on a certain level it feels like a lost battle - because web technologies often feel like the choice of least resistance when you want GUI software that will run on a bunch of platforms while not being annoying to develop (from the perspective of your run of the mill dev).

11. kumo

    9 1 61 8.3 Rust

    Discontinued Moved to SourceHut (by catacombing)

    

    Someone is doing that: https://github.com/catacombing/kumo/tree/servo

12. sciter

    10 91 2,622 0.0 C++

    Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/JS engine for modern UI development

    

    > I'm convinced that using an embedded browser engine to render app UI is the future.

    Sciter exists: https://sciter.com/

    And it indeed is great for UI.

13. figuro

    11 2 160 9.0 Nim

    Fast, reactive, compiled graphical user toolkit

    

    I’ve been working on a native UI project I call Figuro for a couple of years now (1) that’s built on the idea of simple nodes.

    It’s surprising how similar to HTML it’s becoming. Lately I’m working on adding a subset of CSS.

    1: https://github.com/elcritch/figuro

14. cefglue

    12 1 1 2.4 C#

    Fork of https://gitlab.com/xiliumhq/chromiumembedded/cefglue

    

15. ore-ui

    13 1 586 6.7 TypeScript

    💎 Building blocks to construct game UIs using web tech.

    

    Minecraft Bedrock uses React + a "web-like platform" (I assume this means they've just implemented the bits they needed) for their UI: https://github.com/Mojang/ore-ui

16. Avalonia

    14 297 30,928 9.8 C#

    Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The future of .NET UI

    

    That's why I mentioned https://avaloniaui.net/ which does the part. WPF is not bad compared to everything happening in the web frameworks.

17. llrt

    15 18 8,743 9.6 Rust

    LLRT (Low Latency Runtime) is an experimental, lightweight JavaScript runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and efficient Serverless applications.

    

    AWS' LLRT runtime just switched to QuickJS-NG [0]

    0. https://github.com/awslabs/llrt/pull/669

18. Uno Platform

    16 159 9,955 10.0 C#

    Open-source platform for building cross-platform native Mobile, Web, Desktop and Embedded apps quickly. Create rich, C#/XAML, single-codebase apps from any IDE. Hot Reload included! 90m+ NuGet Downloads!!

    

19. daino-notes-public

    17 4 120 5.9 C++

    Write beautifully. Effortlessly. A note-taking app written in Qt C++ and QML.

    

20. SaaSHub

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