On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> 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.
Yep. And Rust might not be available on all the platforms that Firefox is. Having it as an opt-in configuration -- and one we would enable in official releases on suitable platforms, assuming it all worked well -- might be acceptable, though it would be added complexity. Nick _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
