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		pcwalton on April 30, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2018 We looked at the number of security-critical bugs in one new component of Firefox—Web Audio—a few years ago in order to determine how many of them a memory-safe language would have prevented. The answer was 100%.

yitchelle on May 1, 2018 [–]

Pardon for ignorance, what language is Firefox written in?

steveklabnik on May 1, 2018 | [–]

At the time the analysis was done, the majority was in C++. Now there are some significant Rust components.

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