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Re:Mozilla fixes Firefox zero-day actively exploited in attacks by mikae1 on Thursday October 10, 2024 @04:56AM (#41796956)
Ladybird[1] is switching to Swift[2].

[1] https://ladybird.org

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41208836

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Re:Mozilla fixes Firefox zero-day actively exploited in attacks by hypeatei on Thursday October 10, 2024 @05:36AM (#41797165)
That's not completely accurate. The plan is to use Swift for "security critical" areas like decoding data. It's unlikely core components like the layout/CSS engine will be converted to Swift.
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Re:Mozilla fixes Firefox zero-day actively exploited in attacks by actualwitch on Thursday October 10, 2024 @05:24AM (#41797101)
Swift didn't save apple from rce's in blastdoor.
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