[stackghost]

I thought the original purpose was to rEwRiTe iT iN rUsT and replace gecko in Firefox?

[steveklabnik]

From the presentation announcing Rust inside of Mozilla: https://venge.net/graydon/talks/intro-talk-2.pdf

> We are not “rewriting the browser”. That's impossible. Put down the gun.

[mohamedkoubaa]

Impossible in 2010, maybe

[steveklabnik]

Regardless if it's still true or not, the original purpose was not to re-write Gecko.