http://simonwillison.net/2023-01-16T20:28:46+00:00Simon Willison2023-01-16T20:28:46+00:002023-01-16T20:28:46+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jan/16/igalia/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://thenewstack.io/igalia-the-open-source-powerhouse-youve-never-heard-of/">Igalia: the Open Source Powerhouse You’ve Never Heard of</a></strong></p> An in-depth article about Igalia from July 2022. I had no idea how much stuff they had worked on: arrow functions, generators, async/await, MathML, CSS Grid and a whole bunch more. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://toot.cafe/@bkardell/109699992794216963">Brian Kardell</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-standards">web-standards</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/igalia">igalia</a></p>

2023-01-16T17:08:00+00:002023-01-16T17:08:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jan/16/servo-to-advance-in-2023/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://servo.org/blog/2023/01/16/servo-2023/">Servo to Advance in 2023</a></strong></p> This is excellent news: Servo, the browser-in-Rust project started by Mozilla in 2012 that produced the Rust programming language, is getting re-activated with four new full-time developers provided by Igalia.</p> <p>Igalia are a fascinating organization - I hadn't realized quite how influential they've been until I read <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igalia">their Wikipedia page</a> just now</p> <p>They've been around since 2001, and "in 2019 they were the #2 committers to both the WebKit and Chromium codebases and in the top 10 contributors to Gecko/Servo" - including implementing and maintaining CSS Grid Layout! <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34400214">Hacker News</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/browsers">browsers</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rust">rust</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/servo">servo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/igalia">igalia</a></p>