Servo

Overview

Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications. Servo is a web browser rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and is adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.

Created by Mozilla Research in 2012, the Servo project began as a research and development effort. Stewardship of Servo moved from Mozilla Research to the Linux Foundation in 2020. The project finally moved to Linux Foundation Europe in 2023 with the mission of regaining interest from the broader industry.

Servo is written in Rust, taking advantage of the memory safety properties and concurrency features of the language.

Servo is an independent project hosted at Linux Foundation Europe and managed openly by the Technical Steering Committee. The current short-term focus of the project is to transition Servo from a research project to a production-ready web engine by delivering stable APIs, improving user interaction capabilities, and fostering an active community that contributes to its growth.

The project’s long-term vision is to make Servo the leading embeddable web engine that powers innovative applications and frameworks, offering unparalleled performance, stability, and modern web standards compliance.

Since its creation in 2012, Servo has contributed to W3C and WHATWG web standards, reporting specification issues and submitting new cross-browser automated tests. Core team members have co-edited new standards adopted by other browsers, helping drive the entire web platform forward while building on a platform of reusable, modular technologies that implement web standards.

This is a donation. No goods or services are expected in return. Requests for refunds will be rejected. The Servo Technical Steering Committee discusses how to prioritize spending of available funds in the public monthly calls. You can check how we're using the money in this issue.

For more details on sponsorship tiers and fees, go to Servo Sponsorship.

Contributions

Financial Contributions

  • Recurring contribution (Backer): $5 USD/month

  • Recurring contribution (Sponsor): $100 USD/month

  • Recurring contribution (Sustainer): $10 USD/month

  • Custom contribution: Minimum $5 USD

Top Financial Contributors

Organizations

  1. GitHub Sponsors: $60,928.6 USD since Mar 2024
  2. The Linux Foundation: $2,723 USD since Jul 2024
  3. THANKS.DEV: $2,644.57 USD since Jul 2024

Individuals

  1. Incognito: $10,000 USD since Apr 2024
  2. Anthropy: $2,100 USD since Sep 2024
  3. Peter Huene: $1,600 USD since Mar 2025

Community

Contributors

Thank you for supporting Servo.

Budget

Today’s balance: $75,085.79 USD
Total raised: $126,728.27 USD
Total disbursed: $51,642.48 USD

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