Re:Improving Firefox stability with this one weird trick
by smw on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:24PM
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Very small (but important) parts of firefox are written in Rust
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Re:Improving Firefox stability with this one weird trick
by steveklabnik on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:29PM
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It is 9.5% of the total code base, that’s even counting things like tests. I wouldn’t personally call that “very small” but ymmv.
That also said your parent equating memory safety to “no crashes” is also not correct. A process can exit early while never violating memory safety.