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* CSS style calculation / {{bug|stylo}}: Experimental work is in progress to use Servo's style code in Gecko.
* CSS style calculation / {{bug|stylo}}: Experimental work is in progress to use Servo's style code in Gecko.
* Replace uconv with encoding-rs: {{bug|1261841}}
* Replace uconv with encoding-rs: {{bug|1261841}}
* WebM demuxer: {{bug|1267492}}
* …and more will be added as the project progresses!
* …and more will be added as the project progresses!



Revision as of 15:33, 26 April 2016

Oxidation is a project to integrate Rust code into Gecko and Firefox.

Which components will use Rust code?

  • URL parser: bug 1151899
  • MP4 metadata parser: bug 1161350
  • CSS style calculation / bug stylo: Experimental work is in progress to use Servo's style code in Gecko.
  • Replace uconv with encoding-rs: bug 1261841
  • WebM demuxer: bug 1267492
  • …and more will be added as the project progresses!

What is the high-level status of things?

  • Build system support is available in nightly and Aurora.
  • The MP4 metadata parser is enabled in nightly/Aurora and scheduled to ship to release:
 * Firefox 45  for Linux64 and Mac OSX.
 * Firefox 48 (August 2) for Win32/Win64
  • Rust code is not currently enabled on Linux32 or Android.

Raw Rust code (lives in m-c) blockers

Cargo / GitHub blockers

Rust / Cargo nice-to-haves

  • Per-crate integer overflow checking [5]
  • Artifact caching [6]

Meetings