Mozilla has recently collaborated with Samsung in order to develop Servo, a fresh mobile web browser engine. As it turns out, the software community known specifically for building Firefox, together with the South Korean manufacturer, plans on reconstructing the web browser experience on modern hardware by beginning from a grass-root level.
This software has been written in a fresh language, Rust. In spite of being in the works for several years, this dialect has received official recognition with the web browser engine itself. The joint effort of both the companies should eventually lead to rendering this technology to Android-based devices employing the ARM architecture.
In order to make this possible, the phone maker claims to have delivered an ARM backend to this language along with the platform required to cross-compile to Android. Shedding some light on Rust, a post on the Firefox developer’s official blog says that the programming dialect has been thrust to version 0.6 and has yet to reach complete stability.
Nevertheless the company defines Rust as a ‘safe by default’ language and vouches that it will stop errors which cause crashes and security vulnerabilities from taking place. The post moreover cites that the language should offer programmers ease of influencing the power of computing platforms with multiple cores.
That being said, neither Mozilla nor Samsung has made a statement mentioning the release date of the finalized version of Servo or Rust, since the software as well as the language are still in their early stages. Those interested in striding along with the companies in order to develop the language can visit the former’s Github page and download the code for the same.