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Rust has a lot of core team members that no longer work at Mozilla, so this isn't really true today. Also, C and C++ are some of the most widely used languages

• steveklabnik 7y ago
  ... and it's been that way for a long time; we operate on consensus, and in 2014, non-Mozilla folks were added to the core team. Today, it's extremely diffuse; there are ~200 people on the various teams that hold decision making power over the project, and only like six are Mozilla employees. The core team has 3 Mozilla employees and 9 people total.
  • SergeAx 7y ago
    Thank you for those numbers, it confirms my intuitive conclusuion: 1/3 of core team is a significant influence.
    • steveklabnik 7y ago
      Sure, there’s no doubt that Mozilla has influence. What’s important to me, personally, is that they cannot dictate what happens. And we have non-theoretical examples of where that’s the case; Servo would have really liked some form of inheritance to model the DOM, but the team overall said no. Also, note that the core team doesn’t make most of the decisions, unlike core teams of other languages. They also have a minority of representation on the language team as well. And, as someone who was involved before, during, and after working for Mozilla, Mozilla just plain doesn’t have interest in really guiding Rust development. If anything, it’s diminished over time, after all, when Rust started, it was sponsored by the CTO and a director, both of whom eventually left, but also that thought it was important for Rust to be as independent as possible.