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sonnyp on April 30, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories

> So when is Mozilla going to rewrite all of Firefox' backend in Rust?

Well there is Servo https://github.com/servo/servo and

> Ship one Rust component in Firefox Nightly, riding the trains

from https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap

Regarding Pwn2Own it seems that Firefox would be in the competition again once electrolysis (one process per tab) is introduced.

steveklabnik on April 30, 2016 [–]

Rust code is already in Firefox 45 for Mac and Linux, the one you can download right now. Should be in Windows soon. It's just a very, very small amount, but it's a start.

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