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Mozilla's Servo browser engine project looks to improve DOM (Document Object Model) memory management, with the JavaScript garbage collector to be tasked with managing native-code DOM objects.

The approach would be an alternative to reference-counting for tracking pointers between low-level DOM objects, which can bring about complications like the leaking of memory objects. "We have a new approach for DOM memory management, and we get to use some of the Rust language's exciting features, like auto-generated trait implementations, lifetime checking, and custom static analysis plug-ins," say Josh Matthews and Keegan McAllister in a Mozilla Research blog post this week.

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