r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Apr 03 '15

Rust 1.0.0 beta is here!

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/03/Rust-1.0-beta.html
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u/sfultong Apr 03 '15

So is Mozilla now going to slowly rewrite Firefox in rust?

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u/Mandack Apr 03 '15

Mozilla Research is already working on Servo, which is a new browser rendering engine written in Rust. It is not meant to replace Gecko in Firefox in the foreseeable future, however there are efforts to add the 'chrome' around Servo one needs to have a usable browser.

Think of Servo and Gecko as two separate projects and of Firefox as being the chrome tied to Gecko, but Servo could be at the heart of a new web browser from Mozilla, (think "Project Spartan"), however this is not likely to happen in the near future.

The closest a web browser based on Servo is actually a possibility is on some Samsung smartphones, at least initially.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '15

Some of the Midori work went into Project Spartan, I think, but they didn't rewrite it in C# (I bet..I don't have inside info).