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robin_reala
on July 10, 2017
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24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse
Firefox is C and Rust, so I’m not sure there’s such a direct comparison.
mbel
on July 10, 2017
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C and Rust? Firefox looks like a ton of C++ to me:
https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev
viraptor
on July 10, 2017
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Primarily C++, but Rust is there as well. However it's mostly libraries which were extracted from gecko itself, so it's dependencies, not main codebase.
robin_reala
on July 10, 2017
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I stand completely corrected, don’t know why I had that in my head.
swift
on July 10, 2017
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The vast, vast majority of the Firefox codebase is C++.
jm547ster
on July 10, 2017
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You're thinking of Servo -
https://servo.org/
dblohm7
on July 10, 2017
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Firefox now includes many rust components.
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