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The Tor Project is switching to Rust

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348 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 12 Dec 25 12:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.198s | source
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giancarlostoro ◴[12 Dec 25 14:40 UTC] No.46244569[source]▶
I still wish Mozilla had kept oxidizing Firefox. It would have been a net positive for Rust itself.
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1. tialaramex ◴[12 Dec 25 16:38 UTC] No.46245780[source]▶
I mean, they are, so presumably you mean more quickly ? There's a HN article about this after Mozilla fired loads of Rust hackers, and a larger fraction of the Firefox codebase is in Rust than was then, which was in turn more than in 2021 when I first was interested.

It's possible that if Rust had remained "secret sauce" for Mozilla it would have hurt its usage elsewhere, impossible at this distance in time to be sure. There is, for example, far less Rust in Chromium (less than 4%) than in Firefox (more than 12%).