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		thePunisher on May 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chromium project finds that 70% of security defect... Rewriting a browser is a memory-safe language (such as Rust) takes years if not decades. Case in point: Firefox. They've been rewriting parts of it in Rust for the last 6 years or so and they've only managed a little over 10%.

SomeoneFromCA on May 24, 2020 [–]

Well Google is kinda more resourceful than Mozilla, so they could rewrite it but did not.

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