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by blub 1465 days ago
I have a hard time imagining a more accidentally complex piece of software than a web browser written in C++ and in Rust.

All the chaos of the so-called web standards, decades of accumulated C++ complexity and the eccentricity and burgeoning complexity of Rust on top. Getting assigned to such a project must be akin to punishment.

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Not really. That’s a typical workday for many Gecko developers.

Some useful guidelines made it pretty straightforward:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation

In chaos some see order.