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: Experimental work is in progress to use Servo's style code in Gecko.
• …and more will be added as the project progresses!

Raw Rust code (lives in m-c) blockers

• Windows support (testing debugging, profiling, crashdumps)
• Android support

Cargo / GitHub blockers

• Vendoring Cargo crates [1] and [2]
• Two-way source sync (design still in progress) [Discussion

Rust / Cargo nice-to-haves =

• Per-crate integer overflow checking [3]
• Artifact caching [4]

Meetings

• Mozlando [5]
• Oxidation Nov. 2015 [6]
• Mozlandia [7]
• Whistler [8]