On: Servo Revival: 2023-2024

[mdaniel]

Interesting, they also claim that they are the 2nd biggest contributors to Chromium after Google: https://bsky.app/profile/igalia.com/post/3lasylsguzs2f

[jitl → mdaniel]

Igalia is the real deal. Many companies that want bugs fixed or features added to web browsers hire Igalia to make those changes. They also maintain WebKit on Linux (gtk and wpe) https://planet.igalia.com/webkit/

[LeFantome → jitl]

They also employ the main dev for Chimera Linux:

https://chimera-linux.org/

[elcritch → LeFantome]

First I heard of it but Chimera sounds very interesting from an IoT / Embedded Linux perspective.

I've been looking for a while for Linux distro that's easy to build from scratch and customizable.

[lawik → jitl]

Yeah, been seeing their site a lot when setting up cog and weston for an embedded kiosk thing. Also met a bunch of them at the OpennSource Summit in Vienna.

Every now and then you run into these small-ish expert consultancies that actually are the force behind a lot of open source.

They seem awesome.

[topspin → jitl]

That's interesting. One wonders what their future looks like after Google divests Chrome. Good to see that the knowledge base isn't entirely confined within Google.

[barkingcat → topspin]

Igalia is self directed and one of the few organizations I can see taking on technical leadership of the entire chromium project if/when Google divests Chrome.

The technical talent at Igalia runs deep.

[qingcharles → topspin]

Chrome will still be the #1 browser, and corps will still want features added, so they'll be good for a while I think.

[topspin → qingcharles]

Sure. My thinking is this is a big opportunity.

[mmastrac → jitl]

Yeah. I got to see Andy Wingo's work on a V8 feature and it was an impressive piece of work.

[barkingcat → mdaniel]

Igalia is a huge force in open source

They are self directed contractors.

They are also responsible for huge portions of chromium and fundimental/base opensource libraries.

If you can think of an open source library, it's highly likely Igalia had funded some development or bug fixes.