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" putting good engineering principles ahead of marketing and pulling in proven pieces of Rust code from Servo piecemeal, most people will likely never know" Th
by maxxxxx 9y ago
" putting good engineering principles ahead of marketing and pulling in proven pieces of Rust code from Servo piecemeal, most people will likely never know"
That's really not a good strategy. At work I can't just start using Rust without justification but if I can point at large projects being written in Rust suddenly has credibility.
- kbenson 9y agoFor marketing a language? No, unless you ruthlessly capitalize on every small change. For iterating on large changes to a stable secure web browser used by many millions? It seems to have worked well for them so far.
- maxxxxx 9y agoThe problem is that if Rust doesn't establish itself in the broader market then the effort of developing it and adding to the browser is pretty questionable. You generally don't want code in a language nobody else uses. I hope rust will make it but it's very hard to establish a language long-term.