Mozilla has announced together with Samsung on a new advanced browserengine called Servo to work. The engine must be optimized for the latest hardware, while the use of Mozilla’s own programming language Rest for more safety.
Mozilla made the announcement on the Mozilla Blog. With the new engine, the companies want to be ready for the use of the latest hardware and technology and also is the engine optimized for use with multicore processors. The engine is not based on an existing engine, but is newly written. Mozilla’s Firefox is currently using Gecko, a browserengine which has been in existence since 1997.
The engine is written in the programming language Rust, a language that Mozilla itself has developed with the eye on safety. The companies think this is the cause of many security vulnerabilities. Mozilla and Samsung announce both Rest and Servo for ARM hardware. A small beginning, in the form of compileermogelijkheden,, Mozilla has published on Github.
The announcement coincides with the reach of a new version of Peace, with version number 0.6. Mozilla announced together with Samsung the next year the first major revision of Rust, where the libraries are cleaned up, expanded, and documented. Also, the tools more user-friendly and the programming language faster. The company wants to Rest the same niches to fill where C++ is currently the frontrunner, in particular by lightweight primitives for parallelization to implement.