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Will Spidermonkey be rewritten in Rust eventually?

Sidenote: WebGL 2.0 should come with ASTC support to be relatively future-proof.




Note that JITing compilers gain a lot less from Rust's safety guarantees than most code: you can easily JIT some code that breaks one of the safety properties that Rust ordinarily defends.


That is too far in the future to see.




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