🄳 Chrome adopts Rust and replaces libxml2 written in C since version 147

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According to Chrome dev blog browser is now powered with Rust. The Rust's part replaces old C-written parser libxml2. This new module would be used in some cases for parsing XML (when no XSLT templates involved) and replaces years old dependency libxml2

Here is the Chromium's task tracker https://issues.chromium.org/issues/466303347

This is new milestone for Rust language