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Re:Can Servo be a clean and modern reference platform for de... by hacker_9 on Thursday August 27, 2015 @11:01AM (#10129806)
Are the latest standards not full of legacy ideas though? Really we need to throw away html/css/js and create something better from everything that has been learned.

What about replacing clientside javascript with Rust?

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Re:Can Servo be a clean and modern reference platform for de... by steveklabnik on Thursday August 27, 2015 @11:05AM (#10129824) 

  > What about replacing clientside javascript with Rust?
This is, in theory, possible with emscripten or, someday, WebAssembly. See http://myth.aaronlindsay.com/test/ as an example of Hematite, a Minecraft renderer, compiled with Emscripten.

Doing this isn't exactly easy at the moment, as Rust and Emscripten haven't been using the same LLVM versions for a long time, but will eventually be pretty easy to do.

I still plan on just writing JavaScript, personally.

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Re:Can Servo be a clean and modern reference platform for de... by pjc50 on Thursday August 27, 2015 @11:36AM (#10130038)
This is simply never going to get widely deployed.
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Re:Can Servo be a clean and modern reference platform for de... by outworlder on Thursday August 27, 2015 @01:38PM (#10130844)
Why not replace it with something roughly similar, but better? Such as Lua.
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