Implications of Rewriting a Browser Component in Rust
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/02/rewriting-a-browser-component-in-rust/ [hacks.mozilla.org]
2019-02-28 16:03
The style component is the part of a browser that applies CSS rules to a page. This is a top-down process on the DOM tree: given the parent style, the styles of children can be calculated independently—a perfect use-case for parallel computation. By 2017, Mozilla had made two previous attempts to parallelize the style system using C++. Both had failed.
source: HN