Manuel Rego Casasnovas

Servo: A web rendering engine for the future

In this talk we’ll learn about Servo, a web rendering engine written in Rust. The project was started by Mozilla in 2012, and moved to Linux Foundation in 2020. In 2023 Igalia took over the project and has been leading its evolution since then.During the presentation, we’ll review the main features of the Servo project, give an update on the latest status and discuss the long-term vision of the project, which aims to become an alternative web rendering engine in the future.

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Biography

Manuel Rego is a free software developer working on the Web Platform at Igalia. Over the past few years, he has been working on the implementation of different web platform features in Chromium/Blink and WebKit for which he is an owner and reviewer, respectively. Manuel is also a member of the CSS Working Group since 2017, Blink API owner since 2020 and Servo Technical Steering Committee chair since 2023.