[dale_glass]

But Rust is actually a successful language, and the idea of writing a web browser in it is actually a good one.

Security is a huge concern for something like a web browser, which is a thing that keeps on increasing more and more in complexity. So far it seems Java is dead in the desktop space, and .NET has a very minimal impact, so it seems a compiled language is the way to go.

And Rust's excellent support for multithreading is also a big boon since now multicore CPUs are a standard and keep on getting more and more cores.

Overall the idea of building a very safe and performant browser seems like a great one.

[suslik]

Is Java truly dead for desktop? I like Rust, don't get me wrong, but is there anything written in Rust for desktop on the scale of Jetbrains IDEs?