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by k__ 3252 days ago
Do I get this right.

Servo is the experimental browser (engine?)?

Quantum is the project that ports parts of Servo to Firefox over time?
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mintplant 3252 days ago
Quantum is now also a bit of an umbrella project for initiatives making Firefox faster. "Quantum Flow", for example, is an engine-wide effort to push performance in the bits that still C++.
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sp332 3252 days ago
Right. Servo is an engine that will be embeddable into apps that need to render HTML, not just browsers.
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k__ 3252 days ago
Ah, so like the omni-present webkit view?
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sp332 3252 days ago
Yeah, exactly. It doesn't include a JS engine so for now it uses SpiderMonkey, but eventually you should be able to plug others in.
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