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by mattdeboard 2767 days ago
Yeah buddy. https://servo.org/

Also there is already amazing work for Rust and WASM https://rustwasm.github.io/book/
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jayflux 2767 days ago
Servo uses spidermonkey
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mattdeboard 2767 days ago
Oh, I see. Thanks. I assumed the JS engine was written in Rust!
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earenndil 2767 days ago
Spidermonkey will probably never get rewritten in rust, as the safety guarantees would be precluded by JIT.
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bpicolo 2767 days ago
That's not entirely the case - there's definitely research / work being done in this area.

https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2017/10/20/holyjit-a-new...

https://github.com/nbp/holyjit

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