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Comment by andriy_koval

15 hours ago

why did it crash? Rust is supposed to be memory safe?..

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nablaxcroissant  14 hours ago

crashes happen for reasons besides memory safety. web-engines are crazy complicated pieces of software and crashes could happen for any number of reasons. also I would be shocked if this was written using purely safe rust

mkl  9 hours ago

The JS engine is SpiderMonkey, which is C++.

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