Comment by heresie-dabord

4 hours ago

From TFA:

> The browser now ships adblock-rust, Brave's open source Rust-based ad and tracker blocking engine.

It makes sense that Mozilla would test this. The amount of Rust code in Firefox is already at 12%.

https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/

Memory-safe code can make a huge difference in trust and software risk. Google has said that a 70% of Chrome vulnerabilities are related to memory (un)safety. This is in the browser with dominant marketshare.

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...