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Probably not much: the requirement is exact equivalence of program inputs to outputs, and as such the agents are performing very mechanical translation from the existing C++ code to Rust. Their prompts aren't "implement X browser component in rust", they're "translate this C++ code to Rust, with these extra details that you can't glean from the code itself."
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It's like only 10% of Firefox is rust.
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I wonder where did you get the idea that Firefox was all Rust. Made me curious.
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Only a small portion of Firefox is written in Rust. Apparently some of the most performant and least buggy parts are those in Rust, but again, only parts like the CSS engine.
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https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox Rust isn't even mentioned in languages used.
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