Post Syndicated from original https://lwn.net/Articles/919830/

The Chromium browser project has announced
that it will be integrating support for third-party libraries written in Rust.

Our goal in bringing Rust into Chromium is to provide a simpler
(no IPC) and safer (less complex C++ overall, no memory safety
bugs in a sandbox either) way to satisfy the rule of two, in order
to speed up development (less code to write, less design docs,
less security review) and improve the security (increasing the
number of lines of code without memory safety bugs, decreasing the
bug density of code) of Chrome. And we believe that we can use
third-party Rust libraries to work toward this goal.

Rust was developed by Mozilla specifically for use in writing a
browser, so it’s very fitting that Chromium would finally begin to
rely on this technology too. Thank you Mozilla for your huge
contribution to the systems software industry. Rust has been an
incredible proof that we should be able to expect a language to
provide safety while also being performant.