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Re:Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) by Paul-ish on Friday December 07, 2018 @12:05PM (#18629337)
It seems unlikely that FF will ever be completely written in Rust. More likely that new bits that get added are Rust, and many of the old bits stay C++.

If FF gets rewritten in Rust, it will be a decades long effort.

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Re:Choose Firefox Now, or Later You Won't Get a Choice (2014) by pietroglyph on Friday December 07, 2018 @12:28PM (#18629546)
I would just add that Mozilla also targets security critical portions with Rust rewrites. You don't necessarily need 100% Rust to be secure (if you have the right security model).
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