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> For rust since it came from Mozilla team I'd expect by now Firefox is already re-written in rust by now but it seems yet to happen, and this article probably
by Someone1234 6y ago
> For rust since it came from Mozilla team I'd expect by now Firefox is already re-written in rust by now but it seems yet to happen, and this article probably tell us why [2]
Nope. In fact that article says:
> By 2017, Mozilla had made two previous attempts to parallelize the style system using C++. Both had failed.
And goes on to say how they were successfully able to re-write it in Rust, and then talks about the kind of security problems Rust solves and the ones beyond language scope (correctness).
But I don't think we really needed an article to tell us why a 20+ year old browser that has a billion man-hours of development hasn't been re-written in a language that has only been stable for five years, and has a relatively small team working on it.