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An anonymous coward writes:
"Mozilla is using work on it's next generation layout engine, Servo, to fine tune a new language used for writing that layout engine. The new language, called Rust, started as a personal project of Greydon Hoare and has since grown to be sponsored by Mozilla and Samsung. From the article:
The Rust language will power Mozilla's new browser, Servo, and its big selling point is efficiency. Because C++ crashes when it runs into memory allocation issues, it weakens any browser that uses the language. Mozilla designed Rust to be superior to C++ this way, more easily isolating tasks and promote a process known as "work stealing," which is when tasks from an overloaded processor are shifted over to another one.
Rust is a general purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Mozilla Research. It is designed to be a "safe, concurrent, practical language", supporting pure-functional, concurrent-actor, imperative-procedural, and object-oriented styles."
(Score: 2, Informative) by sjames on Sunday March 16 2014, @08:08AM
Sorry, it won't do that. Rust will be used to write the browser which will, in turn, support Javascript.
I can sure sympathize with your position though. I can and do code in Javascript when it needs to run in the browser, but much of the functionality feels bolted on and then mysteriously restricted to paper over a gaping security hole that resulted from security not really being a priority when the runtime was designed.
It would be nice if Javascript would just implement declared domains of trust and be done with it.
It could use a good syntax cleanup as well.