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by steveklabnik
2581 days ago
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For a case study here, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6SSTRr2mFU TL;DR: Rust's concurrency guarantees made parallelizing CSS layout feasible. They tried it in C++ twice, and failed. One of the early justifications for pursing Rust at all was security; an internal survey of security issues was done, and over half of them were memory-safety related. At the same time, browsers need speed. Traditionally, you get either speed or memory safety in a language; Rust gives you both. |
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