Hi, This year I've been working on three new components[0] and I considered Rust for both.
At the time, when asked people on #rust and #developers, the answer was that oxidation targets should have very simple APIs, because getting anything more complex than strings/ints between rust and cpp/js is non-trivial. I don't know if that changed, but I'd appreciate any tutorial on how to write a WebIDL/XPIDL module or transfer JSON between Rust and JS/CPP. Thanks, zb. [0] intl/locale/LocaleService, intl/locale/OSPreferences and intl/l10n/Localization On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 8:41 AM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylves...@mozilla.com> wrote: > I am organizing a second rust training in Paris in September or October > (amongst others) > The registration has been sent to the French staff last week. Will be > shared with the European staff at the end of the week. > > > Le lun. 10 juil. 2017 à 12:30, Nicholas Nethercote <n.netherc...@gmail.com> > a écrit : > >> Hi, >> >> Firefox now has multiple Rust components, and it's on track to get a >> bunch more. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation for details. >> >> I think this is an excellent trend, and I've been thinking about how to >> accelerate it. Here's a provocative goal worth considering: "when writing a >> new compiled-code component, or majorly rewriting an existing one, Rust >> should be considered / preferred / mandated." >> >> What are the obstacles? Here are some that I've heard. >> >> - Lack of Rust expertise for both writing and reviewing code. We have >> some pockets of expertise, but these need to be expanded greatly. I've >> heard that there has been some Rust training in the Paris and Toronto >> offices. Would training in other offices (esp. MV and SF, given their size) >> be a good idea? What about remoties? >> >> - ARM/Android is not yet a Tier-1 platform for Rust. See >> https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html and >> https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/arm-android-to-tier-1/5227 for some >> details. >> >> - Interop with existing components can be difficult. IPDL codegen rust >> bindings could be a big help. >> >> - Compile times are high, especially for optimized builds. >> >> Anything else? >> >> Nick >> _______________________________________________ >> firefox-dev mailing list >> firefox-...@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing list > firefox-...@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
