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While I'm happy they are keeping development up, I'm sad about the 'move to web technologies'. I really like the idea of purpose-built applications in fast lang

While I'm happy they are keeping development up, I'm sad about the 'move to web technologies'. I really like the idea of purpose-built applications in fast languages that compile to efficient native code. I don't really want a webapp, wrapped in a single-app browser, we already have so many of those.

ibotty 9y ago
Thunderbird (and Firefox before) were already mostly web apps. XPCom, etc is a (pretty bad) variant of the web technology stack.
rebelwebmaster 9y ago
More relevant to Firefox than Thunderbird, perhaps, but the advantage to using web technologies for their own front end is that it forces them to eat their own dogfood at least. Given that Mozilla wants the web to win, making sure their platform is well-rounded enough to performantly build their own products on top of seems like a wise strategy. Kind of a vote of no-confidence otherwise.
- bigbugbag 9y ago
  What makes you think mozilla wants the web to win ?