Modular Servo: Three Paths Forward

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Servo currently hides implementation details via Rust crates and shared traits but loses recomposability because many components are image cache tied to IPC, forcing implementations to use Servo's channel pattern. Embedding works: Servo successfully replaces other engines and is embedded in Tauri and KDE/Qt as a webview. Work targets making foreign parts swappable by centralizing and wrapping unsafe bindings—there is a plan to abstract SpiderMonkey behind a safe Rust trait—while wgpu and rust-url show concrete reusable pieces; no full IPC rework yet.

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1. 0:00Introduction to modularity
2. 2:51Internal system components
3. 14:14Servo as an embedded engine
4. 20:24Integration of external parts
5. 28:49Conclusion and future outlook
6. 31:21Q&A session

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