On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Bobby Holley <bobbyhol...@gmail.com> wrote: > My 1000-ft take on big-picture direction: > * Platform wants to pivot from implementing Platform things in C++ (which > is prone to memory hazards) and JS (which is weakly typed, has runtime > overhead, and various security gotchas) to implementing them in Rust (which > mostly eliminates memory hazards like JS does, but has none of the > aforementioned downsides of JS). > * Firefox wants to pivot from implementing Firefox things with XPCOM/XUL > machinery to implementing them with Web/HTML machinery.
This is great, thanks. I was wondering: where/why is the boundary between those two very different directions? Cheers, Dirkjan _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
