Comment by danpalmer
11 hours ago
FWIW, I don't write Rust, and this is why I said "not limited to". Honestly, Swift might be an interesting one. I gather Zig can provide a more safety than C++. There are a bunch of other options too.
Performance is often a concern, but a slow secure browser is better than a fast insecure one. Perhaps I'm a security troll, but writing this stuff in C++ has been shown over the last 30+ years to be functionally impossible, and yet security is one of the most important things for a browser.
If the answer is that there are more possible contributors, or even that this is a hobby project and it's what the author knows, those are reasonable answers, but I'm interested anyway because perhaps the author has a different way of thinking about these tradeoffs to me, and maybe that's something I can learn from.
I'm convinced that the "security" paranoia is just concern-trolling at this point, trying to push people towards more authoritarian and corporate-controlled languages and environments.
Yeah, suddenly everyone seems to care about security they know nothing about. If they truly cared, they would have cared before Rust, you know, by writing Ada / SPARK.