Porting a cross-platform GUI application to Rust - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
Porting a cross-platform GUI application to Rust - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
The Firefox crash reporter has been ported to Rust, with an architecture supporting native cross-platform GUI rendering.
Wow I was wondering what toolkit they were going to use... apparently the answer is "yes".
Or "no". Depending on how you look at it :p
wow! I love the technical part of GUI programming, and that, for me, was a great article! props to alex.
so mozilla hasn't given up on rust after all
The crash reporter has a very unique requirement: it must use as little as possible of the Firefox code base, ideally none!
we already ship GTK with Firefox on Linux to make a modern-feeling GUI, so we can use it for the crash reporter, too.
I'm almost hoping for some GTK-caused crashes. They can enjoy the native look and feel while debugging that!
Maybe then they will learn how to stick fully to logical requirements instead of going for "meh big dependency" and "meh look and feel".