I wish writing safe DOM code were as easy as "just use Rust", but it isn't. There are thorny issues around rooting and GC that are not yet solved. (This is *not* to say C or C++ are fine for DOM code. They make the problem worse.)
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I contemplated this and with the current state of self hosted code in SM it’s not a good idea, according to Till. Also I just want to play with
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Self-hosting has its advantages, in particular optimizers have a really hard time with FFI boundaries. The big problem is security, since it's easy to mess up when both sides of a security boundary are in one language.
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