Programming languages: Rust is coming to Chromium and heres why
Summary
Chromium, the open-source project behind Google Chrome, is enabling new support for Rust in its otherwise C++ codebase, if only in a limited fashion for now. Chromium, the project underpinning Microsoft Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, and dozens more browsers, will support the use of third-party Rust libraries from C++. AOSP, AWS, the Linux kernel project, Meta, Microsoft and many more are adopting Rust in systems programming for its memory safety guarantees. Broadly, Rust can help reduce memory-related vulnerabilities -- that make up the vast majority of software security issues -- introduced by code written in memory-unsafe C and C++, which allow programmers to easily break memory safety rules. She says her team has been exploring "the implications of incrementally moving to writing Rust instead of C++, even in the middle of our software stack" and understanding "what the limits of safe, simple, and reliable interoperability might be."
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