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I mean, it doesn't get any more clearer that the Chromium team is already considering integrating Rust in Chromium to mitigate these sort of memory corruption v
by rvz 2y ago
I mean, it doesn't get any more clearer that the Chromium team is already considering integrating Rust in Chromium to mitigate these sort of memory corruption vulnerabilities found in C and C++ and that is the main motivation here. [0]
Given that Ladybird is yet another C/C++ browser, it will be riddled with these vulnerabilities waiting to be exploited.
I don't think many here are thinking about the costs involved with security fixes and maintenance, at it is in the hundreds of millions of dollars a year just to keep up with Firefox alone. That is the minimum requirement for any serious competing browser.
There's a clear reason why Chrome, Safari and Firefox need hundreds of millions of dollars of developer maintenance a year.
[0] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/main/docs/rust.md#why https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...