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I hope that this is the start of developers being conscious of using resources efficiently again, especially in the browser.

The more rust gets written, the better AI will be able to write it for people... I like to be optimistic.

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I think the Rust part of the headline is incidental in this case. The previous version that used more resources was also written in Rust.

This is true, but a team using rust will probably care more about resource use in general.

I do agree it's kind of a misleading headline, the real update is their use of Flatbuffers.

> I hope that this is the start of developers being conscious of using resources efficiently again, especially in the browser.

Me too.

> The more rust gets written,

Rust seems neither necessary nor sufficient for getting developers to care about memory efficiency again though.

It is not necessary in a theoretical sense, but in a practical sense developers that care about memory efficiency only have a handful of options.

If you also care about memory safety it further limits options.

>I hope that this is the start of developers being conscious of using resources efficiently again, especially in the browser.

AI may have forced the hand on this. Users will no longer be able to subsidize software performance with hardware upgrades due to the great DRAM debacle of 2026..

The adblocker was already written in Rust.

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