CSC/ECE 517 Spring 2019 - M1902 Refactor bluetooth support for better maintainability: Difference between revisions
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== '''Introduction''' == | == '''Introduction''' == | ||
=== '''Servo''' === | |||
'''Servo''' | |||
Servo is a prototype web browser engine, developed on 64-bit macOS, 64-bit Linux, 64-bit Windows, and Android. | Servo is a prototype web browser engine, developed on 64-bit macOS, 64-bit Linux, 64-bit Windows, and Android. | ||
The goal is to create a new layout engine using a modern programming language (Rust), and using parallelism and code safety, to achieve greater security and performance versus contemporary browsers. | The goal is to create a new layout engine using a modern programming language (Rust), and using parallelism and code safety, to achieve greater security and performance versus contemporary browsers. | ||
=== '''Rust''' === | |||
Rust is a new open-source systems programming language created by Mozilla and a community of volunteers, designed to help developers create fast, secure applications which take full advantage of the powerful features of modern multi-core processors. It prevents segmentation faults and guarantees thread safety, all with an easy-to-learn syntax. Rust is syntactically similar to C++, but is designed to provide better memory safety while maintaining high performance. | |||
''' | === '''WebBluetooth''' === | ||
The WebBluetooth specification allows websites to interact with active bluetooth devices in the vicinity of a user. Servo is a new, experimental browser that implements this specification; since bluetooth support requires lots of per-platform code, the current implementation is messy. The goal of this project is to implement clean separation of a cross-platform interface from the specific per-platform implementation to make the code more maintainable. |
Revision as of 16:09, 25 March 2019
Introduction
Servo
Servo is a prototype web browser engine, developed on 64-bit macOS, 64-bit Linux, 64-bit Windows, and Android. The goal is to create a new layout engine using a modern programming language (Rust), and using parallelism and code safety, to achieve greater security and performance versus contemporary browsers.
Rust
Rust is a new open-source systems programming language created by Mozilla and a community of volunteers, designed to help developers create fast, secure applications which take full advantage of the powerful features of modern multi-core processors. It prevents segmentation faults and guarantees thread safety, all with an easy-to-learn syntax. Rust is syntactically similar to C++, but is designed to provide better memory safety while maintaining high performance.
WebBluetooth
The WebBluetooth specification allows websites to interact with active bluetooth devices in the vicinity of a user. Servo is a new, experimental browser that implements this specification; since bluetooth support requires lots of per-platform code, the current implementation is messy. The goal of this project is to implement clean separation of a cross-platform interface from the specific per-platform implementation to make the code more maintainable.