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by vhab 1612 days ago
Early attempts at embedding browsers in games were based on Gecko as well.

But it didn't become more widespread until a switch to Chromium was made, which made the entire process a lot simpler in both execution and distribution.

And there hasn't really been a need to revisit Gecko.

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Wasn't Rust specifically invented to rewrite Gecko?
Rust was a personal project of Graydon Hoare. Mozilla jumped on the Rust train 3 years after its inception. https://web.archive.org/web/20160609195720/https://www.rust-...