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Memory bugs galore. So when is Mozilla going to rewrite all of Firefox' backend in Rust? Maybe they could be invited to Pwn2Own again then.
by mtgx 11y ago
Memory bugs galore. So when is Mozilla going to rewrite all of Firefox' backend in Rust? Maybe they could be invited to Pwn2Own again then.
- sonnyp 11y ago> So when is Mozilla going to rewrite all of Firefox' backend in Rust? Well there is Servo https://github.com/servo/servo https://github.com/servo/servo and > Ship one Rust component in Firefox Nightly, riding the trains from https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap Regarding Pwn2Own it seems that Firefox would be in the competition again once electrolysis (one process per tab) is introduced.
- steveklabnik 11y agoRust code is already in Firefox 45 for Mac and Linux, the one you can download right now. Should be in Windows soon. It's just a very, very small amount, but it's a start.