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Would Firefox be better (more secure and with no performance handicap) if written in Rust? I realize that there is an enormous amount of existing code that shou
by SiVal 13y ago
Would Firefox be better (more secure and with no performance handicap) if written in Rust? I realize that there is an enormous amount of existing code that shouldn't be thrown away, but if Mozilla wanted to create a browser from scratch today (or in a couple of years, when Rust has been debugged and polished), would they write it in Rust?
- letney 13y agoThis is exactly what Servo[1] is. [1] http://www.fastcolabs.com/3027664/under-the-hood-of-mozillas-new-multi-core-browser-and-the-open-source-language-that-powers-i http://www.fastcolabs.com/3027664/under-the-hood-of-mozillas...