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Rust just crossed 10% in Firefox. Rust is steadily replacing C and C++ in Firefox, as it was designed to do. https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ https://
by sanxiyn 5y ago
Rust just crossed 10% in Firefox. Rust is steadily replacing C and C++ in Firefox, as it was designed to do.
https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/
- einpoklum 5y agoYou mean, in the application maintained by the organization which devised Rust and is its main proponent? Someone I am not very impressed.
- sanxiyn 5y agoRust was created to improve the situation where web browsers are written in C++. (I hope we can agree this is bad.) It was not created to impress you.
- dralley 4y agoThe combined total of Rust, C, and C++ is only about half of the Firefox codebase. So it's more like 20% (of the code that it might theoretically replace). Because the code written in HTML and Javascript isn't going to be rewritten in Rust another language, probably ever.