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
- …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 in Firefox 47 (June 6) for Win32, Linux64 and Mac OSX.
- Rust code is not currently enabled on Win64, 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 (no bug?)
- Linux distro support for Rust [1]
- Use the right jemalloc bug 1178897
Cargo / GitHub blockers
- Tracking bug bug 1231764
- Vendoring Cargo crates [2] [3] [4]
- Two-way source sync (design still in progress) [Discussion