{"id":29788,"date":"2023-01-12T23:17:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T23:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/google-polishes-chromium-code-with-a-layer-of-rust-the-register\/"},"modified":"2023-01-12T23:17:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T23:17:35","slug":"google-polishes-chromium-code-with-a-layer-of-rust-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/google-polishes-chromium-code-with-a-layer-of-rust-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Google polishes Chromium code with a layer of Rust \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google plans to support the use of third-party Rust libraries in its open source browser project Chromium, a significant endorsement of the programming language and its security characteristics.<\/p>\n

In a blog post<\/a> published on Thursday, Dana Jansens, from the Chrome security team, said Google’s software engineers have begun working on a production Rust toolchain<\/a> to its build system. The hope is to include Rust code in the Chrome binary before the end of the year.<\/p>\n

“Our goal in bringing Rust into Chromium is to provide a simpler (no IPC<\/a>) and safer (less complex C++ overall, no memory safety bugs in a sandbox either) way to satisfy the rule of two<\/a>, in order to speed up development (less code to write, less design docs, less security review) and improve the security (increasing the number of lines of code without memory safety bugs, decreasing the bug density of code) of Chrome,” explained Jansens.<\/p>\n

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