Re:Orbit. Mozilla's AI Assistant for Firefox
by DoctorOW on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @10:23AM
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It could have been nice to see the Rust rewrites finished instead of shelved due to costs. AI is very expensive so if they have the money for this, they could've probably started that up again. Firefox is generally good feature wise but Google gets to almost usurp the W3C because pretty much every other browser is using the Chromium codebase over Mozilla's.
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Re:Orbit. Mozilla's AI Assistant for Firefox
by i_love_retros on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @10:54AM
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What value would a rewrite in rust bring?
Re:Orbit. Mozilla's AI Assistant for Firefox
by CamouflagedKiwi on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @11:43AM
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It was sold as supporting a much more concurrent rendering engine, which they felt was basically too hard to write correctly/safely in C++, but presumably would be considerably faster.
Re:Orbit. Mozilla's AI Assistant for Firefox
by mdaniel on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @12:49PM
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My interest in a rust web engine is absolutely memory safety, because it's a fun game at work to post the "RCE o' the week" seemingly caused from exposing literally millions of lines of C++ to the wild Internet https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/search/label/Stable%20...