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Could we see a brand-new Chrome browser written in Go, though? Or would it better for Google to use Rust, too, for that?


The Mozilla/Rust/Servo developers talked about why they continue developing Rust and not considering Go for the job. It has absolutely nothing to do with a turf war because Mozilla is actually using Go for some server side things. But one major reason for not using it to implement Servo (the next-gen browser engine) is the mandatory GC. For a lowlevel performance and memory critical application such as a browser engine you don't want a GC.




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