On: Zero-Days in Desktop Web Browsers

[btrask]

Well, they tried to write a new browser engine in Rust but gave up and got laid off. A few pieces got integrated into Firefox but the browser is still wildly insecure (cf. the article).

Turns out "Rewrite it in Rust" is actually really hard when you have millions of lines of code. Even Google probably can't rewrite Chrome from scratch.

Maybe if we just try harder, communism will work. You gotta draw the line somewhere.

[fomine3 → btrask]

They proved the Rust lang and replaced some features on Firefox. Replacing entire engine is hard but current work is still great.

[wffurr → btrask]

Or admit that it's an ongoing process and incremental results are still worth celebrating.