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Servo's Rust Architecture for Safe, Parallel Browsing

linux conf au 2017 - Hobart, Australia · Talk · 45 min · 2017 · YouTube title: Servo Architecture: Safety and Performance
Why it's here

HN recommends it as an exciting look at how a browser can be rebuilt for performance and safety, including the WebRender ideas that fed into Firefox Quantum.

What it covers

Jack Moffitt presents the architecture of Servo, Mozilla's experimental browser engine written in Rust, focusing on parallelism across cores, GPUs and SIMD and the safety properties gained from Rust.