Re:More New Mozilla Technologies
by mtgx on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:45AM
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A browser built with Node.js? And people think rewriting Firefox in Rust would be a waste of development resources.
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Tofino is not a rewrite of the web runtime, it only deals with the front-end. It's likely not the part you want to rewrite in Rust, unlike Servo which focuses on improving core algorithms that are easier to implement with a fresh start. Once they are proven, we move them to gecko, like the style subsystem: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=stylo
Re:More New Mozilla Technologies
by ante_annum on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @12:02PM
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I'm pretty sure the idea is that it's just for prototyping so that ideas can be vetted or demoed quickly without having to touch a ton of C++.
It's node.js + electron; they're not rewriting the HTML renderer (which is Chromium-based).
It's intended as a prototyping platform, where they can quickly build UI experiments using only HTML + JS (and React).
Électron ? So it's a Chrome based Mozilla project ?
More less, but it's only for prototyping.
As far as I understand they wanted to focus on UX and use whatever works for everything elese.