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Servo with Josh Matthews

Mar 31, 2023

51:53

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Fall of Servo at Mozilla

3min

The Rise of the Linux Foundation

2min

The Differences Between Server and Web Kit

3min

The Value of a Complexity Budget

2min

How to Parallelize a Browser Engine

5min

JavaScript Integration in Servo

2min

How Rust Changed the Way I Write C++ Code

2min

Server: A Test Bed for Rust

4min

10.

The Differences Between Servo and Tori

4min

11.

The Importance of Having Realistic Information for Web Developers

2min

12.

The Achilles Heel of CSS

3min

13.

CSS Rendering in Firefox

3min

14.

The Importance of JavaScript Integration in Servo

3min

15.

The Tension of Backwards Compatibility

3min

16.

How to Speed Up Layout in JavaScript

3min

17.

How to Work on Servo

2min

18.

The Status of Servo

3min

19.

The Battle for Serbo

2min

Allen Wyma talks with Josh Matthews, former Engineering Manager at Mozilla for Servo, a web browser engine written in Rust.

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Timestamps

[@0:00] - Josh’s history with Servo
[@3:54] - Community fears around the future of Rust when Mozilla had their layoffs
[@6:52] - Chrome’s Javascript engine
[@10:54] - How to make web design more secure with Rust
[@19:50] - How Servo is using Rust
[@24:49] - Servo’s responsibility as browser engine vs a JavaScript engine
[@30:14] - CSS Grid support
[@35:51] - Developer tools
[@39:54] - Complexity in web optimization
[@42:13] - Running multiple iframes within a page
[@44:21] - How Rust helped Servo
[@46:32] - Funding Servo
[@50:19] - Where to get updates on Servo
[@50:40] - Parting thoughts