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How much of SpiderMonkey (JS engine) is Rust? AFAIK, besides the bindings, it is still mostly C++ and my guess is that it would be difficult to get the core parts in Rust without a full rewrite.



Chromium is fairly invested in cxx[0]. Firefox could do the same if they haven't already.

[0]: https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx




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