… we [Chrome security team] ’ll be exploring whether we can use a memory safe language for parts of Chrome in the future. The leading contender is Rust, invented by our friends at Mozilla …
… we [Chrome security team] ’ll be exploring whether we can use a memory safe language for parts of Chrome in the future. The leading contender is Rust, invented by our friends at Mozilla …
If you want to enjoy a web-browser that uses the full potential of Rust, I suggest you use Firefox. Currently, 9.5% of Firefox is written in Rust. That’s equivalent to 3,017,935 lines of code. Google has long been avoiding Rust and trying to improve C++ to develop Chrome, but the truth is that it has not worked out well…
Too bad they ditched servo. I guess they’re slowly writing parts in Rust instead?
Are attempting to perform the Oxidation (rewrite C++/JS components to Rust).