While it would be nice to see Servo take off and kick butt, it's generally also more wasteful to square wave the funding than increasing funding gradually, than

While it would be nice to see Servo take off and kick butt, it's generally also more wasteful to square wave the funding than increasing funding gradually, thanks to code churn and architectural learning that occurs in the course of a project. It's not just that you can't cook a baby faster by hiring more chefs. Any code written before Rust 1.0 got frozen had an extra work factor applied to its expected future maintenance cost, as does any that relies on some architectural decision that they later discover needs to be modified, and also new hires are going to be more inefficient for longer when you have a larger proportion of them.