Yes, it was revived by Igalia, and has good momentum. Check https://servo.org. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

I can’t wait until Servo has spun up sufficiently. https://servo.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

Though not yet ready for the public don't forget the promising https://servo.org. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

I understand that people need alternatives that work now but please consider contributing your developer expertise and/or donating to Ladybird[0] / Servo[1]. We need to get away from our current engine monoculture of Chromium/Gecko (yes I know webkit exists) [0]: https://ladybird.org [1]: https://servo.org. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

Ladybird is lucky in that it has someone who knows how important marketing is, even for opensource projects. There are other opensource browser engine projects languishing because of lack of PR, patronage and / or volunteers. For e.g. NetSurf https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ - website is outdated because of lack of volunteers, but the project has active development -... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

> Is it something a small team could conceivably do if you placed reasonable constraints on it: one platform at first, no cloud sync, minimal feature set, etc.? Yes. There's a `webkitdev` Docker image which includes the required software to build WebKit on Windows¹, and you can use Playwright to run WebKit (including Web Inspector) on Windows very easily². If you wanted to start with Linux, WebKitGTK would... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

One small note regarding Native Webview meant above. You can find ultimate information on this topic here. In a nutshell, Tauri applications use as HTML renderer Webkit (safari engine) on MacOS, Microsoft Edge WebView2 on Windows, and WebKitGTK on Linux (port of Webkit for Linux). Pay attention to the fact that a Tauri application could behave differently on different platforms according to the information above. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

Web (WebKitGTK) there is an alternative webkit browser that shares a lot of bugs, shortcomings, and peculiarities with Apple Safari. Simply called "Web" on my Ubuntu laptop, that "A simple, clean, beautiful view of the web. Powered by WebKitGTK 2.38.5" has also been known as Gnome Web or Epiphany in alternative builds and former version. It's got a beautiful minimalist globe icon, and it can save you time and... - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

So the Tauri website links to webkitgtk.org which at least is getting regularly updated, though I don't know just how closely it tracks upstream WebKit. Source: almost 3 years ago

Also please note that this patch is only for the WPE and GTK ports, not yet for Safari. But having it included by default in those could convince Apple to also flip the switch. Source: about 4 years ago