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Revision as of 07:36, 7 July 2017
Oxidation is a project to integrate Rust code into Gecko and Firefox.
Which components will use Rust code?
- Completed
- Replace MP4 metadata parser with mp4parse crate (shipped in Firefox 48)
- Replace uconv with encoding-rs: bug 1261841 (shipping in Firefox 56)
- In progress
- URL parser: bug url-oxidation
- CSS style calculation (from Servo): bug stylo
- WebM demuxer: bug 1267492
- WebRender (from Servo): bug webrender
- Audio remoting for Linux: bug 1362220
- SDP parsing in WebRTC bug 1365792
- Proposed
- Replace the XML parser
- Replace the preferences module
- Replace the telemetry module(?)
- Share media playback stack with Servo(?)
- Replace DOM serializers (XML, HTML for Save As.., plain text)
What is the high-level status of things?
- We are actively adding new code modules written in Rust to Firefox.
- Rust has been *required* on all platforms since Firefox 54.
Raw Rust code (lives in m-c) blockers
- Top-level metabug bug oxidation
- Android support bug 1220307
- Linux distro support for Rust [1]
- Need to improve call stacks bug 1268328
Cargo / GitHub blockers
- Tracking bug bug 1231764
- Improve working with vendored Cargo crates [2] [3]