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Servo vs. Ladybird

I believe that Ladybird has more funding and better support for the web, but Servo wins in performance. Though, they're hard to compare directly!

In this article, we'll compare the different approaches that Servo and Ladybird are taking to shake up the current browser engine scene, check their rate of progress, and what's in the best development state. Servo was born in 2012 as a research project, trying to draft up a browser engine that takes advantage of the "memory safety properties and concurrency features" of Rust, speeding up webpage rendering through GPU acceleration. Please note that the Ladybird version I'm using is the latest one from git, and it's built on my computer following the official instructions; I'd be surprised if it lacked some optimization, though such a stark performance difference leaves me a bit speechless.

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