I have to say, the work being done on Servo is really exciting—the first tectonic shift in browser engines to come along in years.

pcwalton's talk about WebRender earlier this year[1] was one of those rare technical presentations that left my jaw on the floor. In particular, the insight that modern browsers are just AAA game engines with a security model, so they should be architected similarly, changed the way I think about browsers. That game developers and Mozilla are both so excited by Rust's ability to safely write parallel systems at scale makes a lot of sense.

[1]: https://air.mozilla.org/bay-area-rust-meetup-february-2016/#... Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11175258

I'm not very familiar with this topic but you may find yesterday's Mozilla Webrender discussion interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11175258

They are working hard towards making Firefox (and every other web product) faster and more efficient, Servo.

I'm pretty sure Firefox will be faster than any other browser once Servo is used inside Firefox instead of Gecko, check this out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11175258