Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust

Re:Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust by pjmlp on Friday March 01, 2019 @01:10AM (#19278335)

Many planes, trains, rockets and medical devices run on Ada.

There is more to commercial compilers than winning the benchmarks game.

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Re:Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust by igouy on Friday March 01, 2019 @06:42PM (#19286388)

For sure.

The benchmarks game is just an easily available source of examples.

Which, for instance, may show an Ada program with much the same measured time as a Rust program —

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

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Re:Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust by Narishma on Friday March 01, 2019 @07:09AM (#19279779)

Those things don't need to be particularly fast. What they need is consistent and predictable performance and resource usage.

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Re:Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust by galangalalgol on Friday March 01, 2019 @09:21AM (#19280794)

Planes trains and rockets have more sensors than ever and speed is very important.

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Re:Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust by galangalalgol on Friday March 01, 2019 @09:19AM (#19280780)

Most of my experience is embedded c++ but I have written ada rust and a fair bit of jovial73. Rust is a perfect fit for those same domains. Most o the things that ran Ada in the US have now switched to c++. Do178b certified safety critical c++ is a horrible thing to develop. I'm hoping rust comes in to fix that.

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Re:Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust by pjmlp on Friday March 01, 2019 @11:19AM (#19282123)

Sure, safe system programming languages should be seen as allies to the common goal of improving the quality of our IT stacks.

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