On: Shipping Rust code in Firefox

[bluejekyll]

Will this include iOS devices too?

This is great news for the language as it's going to help make sure a wider array of architectures are supported.

Awesome work!

[guelo → bluejekyll]

Firefox for iOS is just a wrapper around webkit since Apple refuses to allow any alternate engines.

[masklinn → guelo]

IIRC, technically alternate (rendering) engines are allowed but you can only execute downloaded code using the system's webkit/JSC (and if you didn't you'd be restricted to a straight interpreter).

[kevincox → bluejekyll]

I presume not because IIUC the actual video decoding would be handled by iOS's built in webkit. However I would expect that some rust components would make it to the iOS Firefox in the future.

[TazeTSchnitzel → kevincox]

Firefox for iOS itself is written in Swift.

[cpeterso → bluejekyll]

No, but Rust code in Gecko will eventually run on Firefox for Android.