The XWidget branch has been merged into Emacs 25.1. One very important consequence of that is that it should be possible to embed webkit into Emacs. Perhaps we’re finally getting closer to the dream of a browser inside Emacs1. At least for me, there wouldn’t be much need to leave Emacs if that happened.
UPDATE: Here’s a post with a bit more on what this means.
Footnotes:
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Yes, I know about eww.