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Re:Ten years of V8 by hayd on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @04:16PM (#17962951)
Are there plans to rewrite/port Spidermonkey to rust as part of the Servo project?
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Re:Ten years of V8 by cpeterso on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @05:08PM (#17963382)
Not at this time. The SpiderMonkey code is evolving quickly and Rust's safety guarantees won't help much when executing the JIT-generated code. Servo uses SpiderMonkey.

The SpiderMonkey team has prototyped some JITs using Rust. The "Holy JIT" (a pun on Oracle's Graal VM name) is a meta-compiler for JITs:

https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2017/10/20/holyjit-a-new...

https://medium.com/@jponge/the-graalvm-frenzy-f54257f5932c

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