Memories of Mozilla at 15 and Thoughts on Mozilla Research

Re:Memories of Mozilla at 15 and Thoughts on Mozilla Research by pnt on Thursday April 04, 2013 @12:25PM (#5493498)

Rewriting the browser stack in an evolving language feels like trying to shoot the moon. However, I hesitate to bet against Mozilla when it comes to impossible rewrites.

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Re:Memories of Mozilla at 15 and Thoughts on Mozilla Research by haberman on Thursday April 04, 2013 @04:08PM (#5494955)

I love the idea. It will give Rust lots of feedback about real-world, practical problems that arise on large-scale software. I think it will make it all that much more likely that Rust will be an industrial strength systems language.

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Re:Memories of Mozilla at 15 and Thoughts on Mozilla Research by nnethercote on Thursday April 04, 2013 @10:04PM (#5496454)

Yep. It's a high-risk project, but the pay-off could be huge (both for programming languages and browsers) if they pull it off.

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