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> "If they spent allocated 5% of that revenue on Servo, they could hire 70 developers year round at $235,000 each to work on Servo full time, year-round." Fire
by rhelmer 10y ago
> "If they spent allocated 5% of that revenue on Servo, they could hire 70 developers year round at $235,000 each to work on Servo full time, year-round."
Firefox is a shipping product and Servo is a research project.
Components from Servo are making their way to Firefox as both sides are ready, and parts of Firefox are being written/re-written in Rust as well:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation
So over time it's certainly possible that more engineers will be allocated to Rust/Servo related projects, as they make their way into shipping products.