CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2014/oss M1452 jns

Integrating an XML Parser

This wiki is about the project M 1452: Integrate an XML Parser, which is a part of the ongoing development on the Servo browser. Below you can find a brief description about the servo project, rust programming language, requirements of this particular project, setting up of the development environment and other relevant details.

Background Information

Rust

Rust is a systems language for writing high performance applications that are usually written in C or C++ but it was developed to prevent some of the problems related to invalid memory accesses that generate segmentation faults. It covers imperative, functional and object-oriented programming. It's designed to support concurrency and parallelism in building platforms that take full advantage of modern hardware. Its static type system is safe and expressive and it provides strong guarantees about isolation, concurrency execution and memory safety. <ref name=Rust>Overview of Mozilla Research Projects</ref>

Rust combines powerful and flexible modern programming constructs with a clear performance model to make program efficiency predictable and manageable. One important way it achieves this is by allowing fine-grained control over memory allocation through contiguous records and stack allocation. This control is balanced with the absolute requirement of safety: Rust’s type system and runtime guarantee the absence of data races, buffer overflow, stack overflow or access to uninitialized or deallocated memory. <ref name=Rust>Overview of Mozilla Research Projects</ref>

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