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From what I heard, it is on a roadmap, just not on Servo's. Apparently, it'll someday be a sister project to Servo.

Servo contributor here: Haven't heard of this plan (still could exist), though we do (mostly jokingly) toss the idea around every now and then. There are a couple of not-production-ready Rust JS interpreters floating around (https://github.com/swgillespie/rjs/ is the latest I've seen) though.

Stuff like JITs can't really reap Rust's safety+performance benefits[1], and overall the same might be said of a JS interpreter, with all the garbage collection and stuff. The other thing is that Spidermonkey/Chakra/V8 have had years of optimization and tweaks, starting from a clean slate would be _very_ hard. With Servo's small team this is an impossible task, but with a larger, dedicated, team, there's a chance. shrugs

[1]: though it's possible they will still be safer than the C++ counterparts, which is still good. The question then becomes, how much is that increase in safety, and can it justify a whole rewrite?

It is true, though, that a lot of the danger isn't in the JIT but rather in the bindings (e.g. the native implementation of the Date object, or Typed Array Buffer, or what have you), which Rust's safety features could help with.

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