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		lioeters on Nov 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web Following my curiosity, I found: The Story of Stylo: Replacing Firefox's CSS engine with Rust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6SSTRr2mFU Woo, 9M lines of C/C++ to 85K lines of Rust.. Author's slides: https://www.joshmatthews.net/rbr17/

fabrice_d on Nov 17, 2019 [–]

No, for the style system is 160K lines of C++ down to 85K lines of Rust. Still a great win!

lioeters on Nov 18, 2019 | [–]

Those numbers sound much more realistic, ~53% reduction in code size - and you're right, it's a great testament to Rust's conciseness!

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