Re:Mozilla fixes Firefox zero-day actively exploited in attacks
by Yoric on Thursday October 10, 2024 @06:28AM
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A long time ago, the possibility of using Java or C# in Gecko (the core of Firefox) was pondered.
Java was rejected because of the huge memory requirements and the unpredictable (and sometimes lengthy) garbage-collection pauses.
C# was rejected because (at the time) it was too tied to the Microsoft ecosystem and there was no way to get it to build on all the platforms for which Firefox is available. I don't remember garbage-collection pauses being discussed, but they would also be an issue.
Java was rejected because of the huge memory requirements and the unpredictable (and sometimes lengthy) garbage-collection pauses.
C# was rejected because (at the time) it was too tied to the Microsoft ecosystem and there was no way to get it to build on all the platforms for which Firefox is available. I don't remember garbage-collection pauses being discussed, but they would also be an issue.