Mozilla, Samsung building ‘next gen’ web browser engine

Mozilla, Samsung building ‘next gen’ web browser engine

PanARMENIAN.Net - Mozilla and Samsung on Wednesday, April 3 announced a new partnership to build a “next generation” web browser engine called Servo, The Next Web reports.

The ultimate goal is to bring the technology to Android and ARM, though the two companies have not shared a timeframe for a possible launch.

The main goal is to take advantage of tomorrow’s “faster, multi-core, heterogeneous computing architectures” and “massively parallel hardware.” Mozilla explains Servo is thus an attempt to rebuild the Web browser “from the ground up on modern hardware, rethinking old assumptions along the way.”

Servo is written in Rust, Mozilla’s new systems language, which in itself is also in very early development (version 0.6 was released just on April 3).

It has been in development for several years, but Mozilla still doesn’t consider it to be stable.

While neither Mozilla nor Samsung have shared timing details for Servo, the two are aiming to complete the first major revision of Rust “in the coming year.” They are currently cleaning up, expanding, and documenting the libraries, building out tools to improve the user experience, and beefing up performance.

With the help of Samsung, Mozilla is bringing both the Rust programming language as well as Servo to Android and ARM. Samsung’s contribution so far is an ARM backend to Rust as well as the build infrastructure necessary to cross-compile to Android. In fact, the code is available now on GitHub, TNW says.

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