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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by kenhwang on Friday September 29, 2017 @11:35PM (#15371077)
Read about the first bit of Rust shipping here: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/07/shipping-rust-in-firefox/

And many of the Rust things that make FF56+ fast can be found here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum

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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by noncoml on Saturday September 30, 2017 @02:43AM (#15371600)
Great pointers, thanks.

Do they also have any write-up on how did they find Rust during these changes? Was the back count lower than usual? Did the see an increase on productivity?

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Re:It’s time to give Firefox another chance by 482794793792894 on Sunday October 01, 2017 @11:13AM (#15378217)
These components were built as part of the Servo project and then ported to Firefox, so you'd probably just want to ask the Servo team directly. You can find them on IRC, in the channel #servo on irc.mozilla.org.

There is https://blog.servo.org/, but it's mostly gradual updates on things, not a general overview.

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