[zubspace]

1) Regarding WebRender: Maybe I'm a bit out of the loop, but aren't they working on Servo? It seems, WebRender is a Gecko thing. I'm confused.

2) I'm also confused about the state of Gecko Embedding. As far as I know many are jumping to Chromium instead of Gecko. What's the plan there? Is Chromium better/easier to embed? Will I be able to embed Servo at some point?

[lucideer]

Servo is an experimental browser project to explore ideas/techniques: it's never been intended to be a replacement for/embedded into Firefox.

What was planned and is happening is that a lot of the exploratory work happening on Servo is being integrated into Firefox in parallel. WebRender is one example of this work: it's (effectively) a Servo component that is now in Firefox.

Another example of the above is Stylo/QuantumCSS, Servo's CSS component. This post on Stylo/QuantumCSS gives a good early insight into the overall project to bring these components to Firefox https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super-fast-css-en...

> many are jumping to Chromium instead of Gecko. What's the plan there? Is Chromium better/easier to embed? Will I be able to embed Servo at some point?

- Chromium is much easier to embed than Gecko

- Servo can be embedded now (and uses the same/a similar system to Chromium), but as mentioned above, Servo as a whole isn't stable.

- Making Gecko/Firefox easy to embed would be great, but at this stage I think this is largely a matter of focus, resources, priorities.

- On a related note, there is the GeckoView[0] which is a project to build an easily-embeddable Firefox for Android

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/geckoview

[pygy_]

For 1) WebRender was developed for Servo and is being ported to Firefox as part of the Quantum effort (Firefox Rustification).

[klibertp]

Is it being rewritten in non-Rust during the porting? Or is it left in Rust, with build system taking care to compile and link it properly?

[tangent128]

It's being left in Rust, yes. Firefox already contains Rust components, such as Stylo.

[EwanToo]

WebRender is a Servo thing https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-f...

[starik36]

Not embedding per se, but Chrome folks are working on integrating Firefox into the puppeteer project. https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/tree/master/experi...