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> Why is it that Chrome hasn't had more Rust adoption? Mostly likely because Chrome started in C++ (WebKit) and so there is millions of lines of existing C++.
by pronlover723 5y ago
> Why is it that Chrome hasn't had more Rust adoption?
Mostly likely because Chrome started in C++ (WebKit) and so there is millions of lines of existing C++. Fuchsia, being new, didn't have that legacy.
Note: they're looking into it
https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safety/rust-and-c-interoperability https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...
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- pkulak 5y agoNot WebKit, KHTML. ;)
- fulafel 5y agoFuchsia's kernel (Zircon) is based on LK [0] [1] ("Little Kernel"), it's not a from scratch thing. Would be interesting to know when LK started, the first commit[2] in the git repo is a big code drop so doesn't tell the story. [0] https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/kernel/zx_and_lk https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/kernel/zx_and_lk [1] https://github.com/littlekernel/lk https://github.com/littlekernel/lk [2] https://github.com/littlekernel/lk/commit/1d0df6996457273367e6d9d9d08bf6adb0fc9b65 https://github.com/littlekernel/lk/commit/1d0df6996457273367...