Replacement of C++
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(Core :: Widget: Gtk, enhancement)
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(Reporter: oluoluolu+ffbugzilla, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0
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I was going to put this on Ideas/Connect, but it didn't seem right there...
My question (again) is is there a style guide for the way Firefox (and maybe Thunderbird) use C++ (and maybe C) that could enable a replacement of these languages with something that might be somewhat more ergonomic and less processor intensive?
Imagine if compiles took half the time, or feedback loops could be closer to instantaneous?
Once again, I apologize if this is not the right forum, but I couldn't find anywhere else to put it.
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Comment 1•2 years ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Comment 2•2 years ago
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We're already doing that with Rust. This isn't a bug report though and isn't actionable. Please don't misuse bugzilla.
Please tell me where a better forum for this would be. You don't have mailing lists. And also, it has been said that Firefox will not be rewrittten in C++.
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Comment 4•2 years ago
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For UI we already have JS. For compiled languages we have Rust. If you have a concrete proposal to rewrite a component or something else in either that (or another) language, probably worth mailing dev-platform@mozilla.org?
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