… we [Chrome security team] ’ll be exploring whether we can use a memory safe language for parts of Chrome in the future. The leading contender is Rust, invented by our friends at Mozilla …
“Our friends at Mozilla”? Hmm.
If you want to enjoy a web-browser that uses the full potential of Rust, I suggest you use Firefox. Currently, 9.5% of Firefox is written in Rust. That’s equivalent to 3,017,935 lines of code. Google has long been avoiding Rust and trying to improve C++ to develop Chrome, but the truth is that it has not worked out well…
Too bad they ditched servo. I guess they’re slowly writing parts in Rust instead?
I guess they’re slowly writing parts in Rust instead?
Are attempting to perform the Oxidation (rewrite C++/JS components to Rust).
Well, they had 10 0-days this year already…
I love how they claim the web to themselves: "an increase in these checks would result in a slower web. "
When you start naming you security oriented data structures “MiraclePtr” hahahahaha… what is next a PrayerPtr, BlessingPtr and then the ArmagedonPtr? :D “Friends at Mozilla” realised that C++ is unfixable a decade ago…
Remember the https://chromeisbad.com thing? One year later, they don’t have much of a clue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1158402