• 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 hours ago

      At Mozilla, Servo was basically a research branch that tried new approaches to push performance. Mozilla would merge parts from servo that brought significant performance boost. But when they were pushed to cut budget, instead of lowering executive pay, they shut down the servo team.

      Servo, then spun off as independent project.

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      13 hours ago

      They were merging parts. They cut active maintance as part of the budget crunch they are under with Google being the primary funding.