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Servo uses spidermonkey


Oh, I see. Thanks. I assumed the JS engine was written in Rust!


Spidermonkey will probably never get rewritten in rust, as the safety guarantees would be precluded by JIT.


That's not entirely the case - there's definitely research / work being done in this area.

https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2017/10/20/holyjit-a-new...

https://github.com/nbp/holyjit




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