Oxidation

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

• Tracking: bug oxidation
• Developer Documentation
• Build System Documentation

Which components will use Rust code?

• Completed
  • Replace uconv with encoding-rs: bug 1261841 (shipping in Firefox 56)
• In progress
  • Replace stagefright's MP4 metadata parser with mp4parse crate bug 1161350
  • URL parser: bug url-oxidation
  • 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(?)
  • Share media playback stack with Servo(?)
  • Replace DOM serializers (XML, HTML for Save As.., plain text)

What is the high-level status of things?

• We are actively adding new code modules written in Rust to Firefox.
• 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
• Improve working with vendored Cargo crates [2] [3]

Rust / Cargo nice-to-haves

• Per-crate integer overflow checking [4]
• Artifact caching [5]

Meetings

• Mozlando [6]
• Oxidation Nov. 2015 [7]
• Mozlandia [8]
• Whistler [9]