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DetroitThrowyesterday at 5:01 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's pretty hard to have an accidental a use after free in the FireFox CSS engine because it is mostly safe Rust. It's possible, but very unlikely.


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topspinyesterday at 5:42 PM

That came to my mind as well. CSS was one of the earliest major applications of Rust in FireFox. I believe that work was when the "Fearless Concurrency" slogan was popularized.

moritzwarhieryesterday at 5:51 PM

Firefox and Safari developers dared the Chromium team to implement :has() and Houdini and this is the result!

/s