Mozilla's HTML5 parser is written in Java. One of the reasons java was chosen was the unicode support [1] The Java code is converted to C++ in build time I thin

Mozilla's HTML5 parser is written in Java. One of the reasons java was chosen was the unicode support [1] The Java code is converted to C++ in build time I think [2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6204760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6204760 [2] http://ejohn.org/blog/html-5-parsing/ http://ejohn.org/blog/html-5-parsing/