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Only 9.9%? That's kind of surprising. You frequently hear the refrain "why don't you rewrite it in Rust, like Firefox did" in response to security snafus, so I
by Commodore63 5y ago
Only 9.9%? That's kind of surprising. You frequently hear the refrain "why don't you rewrite it in Rust, like Firefox did" in response to security snafus, so I assumed that FF had more Rust in it.
- Narishma 5y agoI don't think they rewrote anything in Rust. Rather they write new code in it.
- steveklabnik 5y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/tioccm/language_details_of_the_firefox_repo_rust_is_now/i1fxw6w/ https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/tioccm/language_detai...
- infogulch 5y ago"Only 9.9%" is 3 million lines of code. I'm not sure your expectations of a reasonable oxidation rate is in line with reality. Most big "rewrite everything at once!" projects fail; Rust is designed to enable rewriting incrementally which necessarily takes time. Plus it's closer to 20% of all systems language Firefox code is Rust (see other discussion itt).