On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 08:18:16PM -0700, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > At the summit a few of us were talking about ways to promote Rust. > One idea was to rewrite a smallish, well-separated component of > Firefox in Rust, to (a) gain the benefits (parallelism, safety) of > Rust, and (b) promote Rust as a credible language in non-experimental > systems. Image decoders were the first component that came up as a > possibility.
The problem with that plan is that bootstrapping the rust compiler is kind of a problem at the moment, both for trusting trust, and for shipping in e.g. linux distros. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
