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> Why is it that Chrome hasn't had more Rust adoption?

Mostly likely because Chrome started in C++ (WebKit) and so there is millions of lines of existing C++. Fuchsia, being new, didn't have that legacy.

Note: they're looking into it

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...



Fuchsia's kernel (Zircon) is based on LK [0] [1] ("Little Kernel"), it's not a from scratch thing. Would be interesting to know when LK started, the first commit[2] in the git repo is a big code drop so doesn't tell the story.

[0] https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/kernel/zx_and_lk [1] https://github.com/littlekernel/lk [2] https://github.com/littlekernel/lk/commit/1d0df6996457273367...


Not WebKit, KHTML. ;)




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