[imaginenore]

Developing a browser from scratch is a pretty damn hard task. Keeping it safe and up to date is nearly impossible for a small team without funding.

In the case of gngr, it can't even render Reddit or Google.com correctly. Can you imagine how badly it breaks on more complex sites? Can you imagine how broken its core is?

Diversity is good, but it requires resources, lots of them.

[mbrubeck]

As a member of the Servo team, I think the gngr team deserves congratulations on how far they've come. For perspective, Servo only recently (in the last month or so) became usable for browsing Hacker News (though this is largely because we chose a different set of things to implement first). Also, I think it's good for a variety of reasons to have some simpler implementations around, and not just the giant, crufty, heavily-optimized beasts like Gecko and WebKit.

Compatibility is a slog, but it's a doable one. Remember, to be usable on a lot of real-world sites you don't need to catch up with Firefox Nightly or Chrome Canary - you only need to catch up with IE6, or maybe IE8.

Of course, I'm also disappointed that they didn't choose to build their browser on Servo instead. ;)