Firefox: Announcing Project Mortar
This sounds very strange to me.
Many people are pretty excited that Mozilla is doing this Rust thing and trying to move the rendering engine to a safer language.
And now they start a project that:<p>a) wants to keep flash alive longer.<p>b) wants to replace their javascript (aka already memsafe) PDF renderer with a C++ one.<p>I mean I get that pdf.js is not perfect. It had some bad security vulns in the past. But pdfium also has a pretty bad wrap when it comes to vulns (I got plenty of bounties for it myself). But more than that: It's moving from a memsafe language back to C++. That doesn't seem to make any sense at all. If anything they should move their PDF renderer to Rust.<p>And Flash... please just let it die in peace and don't put any more effort into supporting it.