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There's still a bunch of build system issues to be solved before any Rust code can be included in Firefox. You can follow along at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1135640. Note especially the two bugs listed in the "Blocks" field, which are the first two candidates for components to be rewritten once the build system issues are sorted out. (The second of these would replace the notoriously insecure libstagefright with a Rust alternative.) Piston has a BMP decoder, and my understanding is that it is the one used by Servo. I looked at it briefly and I think its support for the dark corners of the BMP format would be even worse than Firefox's would be before my rewrite. See https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/image/tree/master/src/bm... for the code.

One of the Daala developers here. The official reference Daala codebase is implemented in C89 - this is to ensure the widest possible compatibility with all sorts of weird platforms. In addition, the tooling for assembly and intrinsics are mature. Of course, this is only the reference implementation - once the bitstream is stable, it'd be great to try writing a decoder in Rust. An easier starting point might be audio or image codecs, where speed is not as critical and the formats are well defined. For example, here is a pure Rust image codec library: https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/image

Things are moving fast. I'm not sure what you need specifically, but piston[1,2] is probably what to look at and maybe more specifically image[3] or conrod[4] [1]:http://www.piston.rs [2]:http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/28srso/piston_game_eng... [3]:https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/image [4]:http://blog.piston.rs/2014/08/30/conrod-update/