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by peterkos 1903 days ago
I was going to > inb4 rust!, but, isn't Gecko built in Rust?
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KwanEsq 1903 days ago
The style parts are in Rust, but layout is C++, I believe. servo does have an experimental layout engine (or two? layout 2020?) in Rust, but I don't think that ever reached a point where Mozilla were seriously considering replacing Gecko's with it.
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timw4mail 1903 days ago
I think Servo is basically a proving ground for replacing components in Firefox with Rust equivalents.
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ronsor 1903 days ago
Gecko is (mostly, at least) traditional C++. Servo is written in Rust.
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amelius 1903 days ago
Would Rust be the best choice of language, given all the back pointers (previous, parent)?
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timw4mail 1903 days ago
Trees are not that bad in Rust, it's when you have a cyclical structure that Rust is really difficult.
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amelius 1903 days ago
Yes, that's what I meant by "back pointers". In the article, every node has a parent pointer and a child pointer (or several). You can't have both of these pointers without introducing cycles.
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