[tardy_one]

When ypu are talking web facing client full scale browser, C++ is impossible to secure as well as a safer language and most safer languages are impossible to optimize as well as C++. So rust is not so much exciting as not horrifying.

[nextos]

I agree with this, I love SerenityOS and LadyBird looks very interesting. But scaling that to a serious and safe browser with C++ is going to be hard.

Plus, I don't see how Firefox is really broken. Right now, forking and shipping with a custom user.js is sufficient to fix most annoyances.

[JohnFen]

Yes, I know the argument and it has some merit. I just don't find it very persuasive, so a thing being implemented in Rust doesn't make me any more or less willing to use it. To each their own.

[timschmidt]

Microsoft: 70% of all security bugs are memory safety issues: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...

Chrome: 70% of all security bugs are memory safety issues: https://www.zdnet.com/article/chrome-70-of-all-security-bugs...

"Rust is an emerging programing language that aims at preventing memory-safety bugs without sacrificing much efficiency. The claimed property is very attractive to developers, and many projects start using the language. However, can Rust achieve the memory-safety promise? This paper studies the question by surveying 186 real-world bug reports collected from several origins which contain all existing Rust CVEs (common vulnerability and exposures) of memory-safety issues by 2020-12-31. We manually analyze each bug and extract their culprit patterns. Our analysis result shows that Rust can keep its promise that all memory-safety bugs require unsafe code...": https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03296

Seems persuasive to me.