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by sonnyp 3698 days ago
> So when is Mozilla going to rewrite all of Firefox' backend in Rust?

Well there is Servo https://github.com/servo/servo and

> Ship one Rust component in Firefox Nightly, riding the trains

from https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap

Regarding Pwn2Own it seems that Firefox would be in the competition again once electrolysis (one process per tab) is introduced.
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steveklabnik 3698 days ago
Rust code is already in Firefox 45 for Mac and Linux, the one you can download right now. Should be in Windows soon. It's just a very, very small amount, but it's a start.
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