How do we get to more than just three web engines owned by three US companies? It's a gargantuan question, with no easy or right answer. I've put together a draft report, thinking about it through a very specific approach - please enjoy: Servo Readiness Report webtransitions.org/servo-readiness/
Mar 6, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Collective funding, governance and prioritization of a browser engine projects · Issue #11 · w3c/breakouts-day-2025
Session description Today, each of the three main, open source browser engine projects have a steward organization which contribute, by far, the lion's share of the project's commits - 75-9...
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Servo is falling behind the web. It completes ~22 features/year at production quality, while the Baseline “Widely Available” set grows at ~52 features/year. At this pace, Servo plateaus around 80% by ~2037 and never catches up. Full velocity parity requires ~44 FTE (€8.8M/yr, €26.3M over 3yr). BWA features vary widely in real-world usage — a phased approach that prioritizes high-usage features first could reduce the initial headcount and cost by up to 40% while building toward full parity. The highest-leverage actions are unstalling 141 blocked features and fixing 51 regressions (features that lost >5 percentage points). This is a work-in-progress analysis focusing on one aspect of web engine development — feature-level readiness — and is not exhaustive. It is designed to orient thinking about cost and timelines. The central question: what would it cost in engineering investment alone to bring Servo to velocity parity within 3 years, excluding non-engineering and operational costs?
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