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Re:Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation by viktorcode on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @11:55AM (#26091665)
> They failed. C++ simply wasn't usable for writing a parallel CSS engine.

WebKit has CSS engine is written in C++. Chromium has one too.

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Re:Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation by steveklabnik on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @11:56AM (#26091678)
It’s not currently parallel though, right? That part is critical to the point being made.

After all, Gecko had a C++ implementation too. Nobody is suggesting that any implementation is literally impossible.

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Re:Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation by dralley on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @11:57AM (#26091698)
And Firefox had one too. But it wasn't parallel. That's what is being discussed here.
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