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What are Mozilla's plans for integrating rust into Firefox? Is this a mostly theoretical constraint or is there a plan to have this implemented?
by tallowen 14y ago
What are Mozilla's plans for integrating rust into Firefox? Is this a mostly theoretical constraint or is there a plan to have this implemented?
- erickt 14y agoMozilla is using rust for a new prototype engine called servo: https://github.com/mozilla/servo https://github.com/mozilla/servo
- kibwen 14y agoRust is being used to implement an experimental new browser engine with a focus on concurrency in order to better take advantage of highly-parallel and power-limited hardware. It's known as Servo,[1] and it's still strictly in research mode; there are no concrete plans to integrate anything into Firefox as of yet. Even if there were, Rust itself won't be at 1.0 until sometime next year, and it would be quite a while beyond that before Servo had any semblance of feature parity with Gecko. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/servo https://github.com/mozilla/servo
- agumonkey 14y agoStill can't build it (llvm fails somewhere) but reading the source code is interesting, very concise.
- pcwalton 14y agoPlease file an issue regarding the build problem if you get the time on our issue tracker: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues We're trying to iron out all of these issues.