[abraxas]

Wasn't Rust developed specifically for Mozilla? Isn't mozilla written in Rust?

[Leynos]

Only parts of it. Servo is the engine written in Rust, some of which ended up in Mozilla.

[wmf]

Firefox has some Rust components but it isn't written in Rust overall. Servo is written in Rust but it isn't a full browser.

[tvshtr]

Servo is slowly but steadily getting there. The thing with Servo is that it's highly modularized and some of its components are widely used by the larger Rust ecosystem, even it the whole browser engine isn't. So there's multi-pronged vested interest in developing it.

Moreover, Servo aims to be embeddable (there are some working examples already), which is where other non-Chrome/ium browsers are failing (and Firefox too). Thanks to this it has much better chance at wider adoption and actually spawning multiple browsers.

[snerbles]

Mozilla laid off the Servo team years ago.

[tvshtr]

Servo was passed onto Linux Foundation and is still being developed, some of its components are shared with Firefox.

[tvshtr]

Yes and yes. Firefox is partially written in Rust.