Oxidation

Oxidation is a project to integrate Rust code into Gecko and Firefox.

• Tracking: bug oxidation
• Developer Documentation

Which components will use Rust code?

• Completed
  • URL parser: bug 1151899
  • Replace uconv with encoding-rs: bug 1261841
• In progress
  • CSS style calculation (from Servo): bug stylo
  • WebM demuxer: bug 1267492
  • WebRender (from Servo): bug webrender
  • Audio remoting for Linux: bug 1362220
  • SDP parsing in WebRTC bug 1365792
• Proposed
  • Replace the XML parser
  • Replace the preferences module
  • Replace the telemetry module(?)

What is the high-level status of things?

• Build system support for Rust is available, but not required by default.
• The MP4 metadata parser is enabled and shipped on release!
• Rust code is not currently enabled on Android.
• Rust has been *required* on all platforms since Firefox 54.

Raw Rust code (lives in m-c) blockers

• Top-level metabug bug oxidation
• Android support bug 1220307
• Linux distro support for Rust [1]
• Need to improve call stacks bug 1268328

Cargo / GitHub blockers

• Tracking bug bug 1231764
• Vendoring Cargo crates [2] [3] [4]
• Two-way source sync (design still in progress) [Discussion

Rust / Cargo nice-to-haves

• Per-crate integer overflow checking [5]
• Artifact caching [6]

Meetings

• Mozlando [7]
• Oxidation Nov. 2015 [8]
• Mozlandia [9]
• Whistler [10]