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Ladybird Browser adopts Rust
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this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2026
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Andreas did not like the Rust community. It sounds like that is still true.
He also thought that Rust integrates poorly into project with a deep C++ OOP hierarchy. That is probably still true as well.
It is telling that the first project was a total rewrite of the entire JavaScript engine. There is no shared hierarchy and a well defined boundary between the C++ and Rust code. That may be a sign of things to come.
We may see entire modules that are either all Rust or all C++ rather than more fine grained mixing.
Is there any language that can do that? As far as I know there isn't. You can use SWIG or whatever but it's just as awful as any Rust/C++ interop. There's Carbon, but that's a work in progress.
IMO if you need integration with a deep C++ OOP hierarchy your options are a) give up and just use C++, or b) pain, no matter what language you target.