Mozilla and Samsung working on Servo rendering engine

Mozilla revealed it's cooperating with Samsung on Servo, a new rendering engine written in a new programming language named Rust. Servo promises to take optimal advantage of multi-core architectures while also introducing new security features. Currently, Rust and Servo are primarily intended for Android and ARM, but perhaps these new technologies will also find their way into Firefox in the future.

Mozilla’s mission is about advancing the Web as a platform for all. At Mozilla Research, we’re supporting this mission by experimenting with what’s next when it comes to the core technology powering the Web browser. We need to be prepared to take advantage of tomorrow’s faster, multi-core, heterogeneous computing architectures. That’s why we’ve recently begun collaborating with Samsung on an advanced technology Web browser engine called Servo.

Servo is an attempt to rebuild the Web browser from the ground up on modern hardware, rethinking old assumptions along the way. This means addressing the causes of security vulnerabilities while designing a platform that can fully utilize the performance of tomorrow’s massively parallel hardware to enable new and richer experiences on the Web. To those ends, Servo is written in Rust, a new, safe systems language developed by Mozilla along with a growing community of enthusiasts.