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I was thinking new stuff was done in Rust. I guess Gecko is CPP only?
by winrid 6y ago
I was thinking new stuff was done in Rust. I guess Gecko is CPP only?
- richdougherty 6y agoI think some Rust components have been written and integrated into Firefox. But the core Firefox codebase - including Gecko - is still C++ so it's not easy use Rust there. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation On a related note, Chrome is looking at integrating Rust into its C++ codebase. https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safety/rust-and-c-interoperability https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...
- stjohnswarts 6y agoNot true majority by far is done in c++. Easily confirmed by downloading the browser source and using a LOC analyzer to see how much code is done in which languages
- winrid 6y agoYeah, not interested enough to do that.