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:a) wants to keep flash alive longer.b) wants to replace their javascript (aka already memsafe) PDF renderer with a C++ one.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.And Flash... please just let it die in peace and don't put any more effort into supporting it.