Oxidation

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

• Tracking: bug oxidation
• Developer Documentation

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

• Top-level metabug bug oxidation
• Support for multiple Rust projects in-tree bug 1163224
• Android support bug 1220307
• Win64 support bug 1248890
• Linux32 support bug 1265893
• Linux distro support for Rust [1]
• Use the right jemalloc bug 1178897
• Need to improve call stacks bug 1268328

Cargo / GitHub blockers

• Tracking bug bug 1231764
• Vendoring Cargo crates [2] [3] [4]
• Two-way source sync (design still in progress) [Discussion

Rust / Cargo nice-to-haves

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

Meetings

• Mozlando [7]
• Oxidation Nov. 2015 [8]
• Mozlandia [9]
• Whistler [10]