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Do elaborate how its even remotely Rust's fault that FF has lost its marketshare.
by Avamander 7y ago
Do elaborate how its even remotely Rust's fault that FF has lost its marketshare.
- scarface74 7y agoWhat does Rust have to do with anything? Joel’s article I referenced was about Netscape rewriting their browser during the browser wars over a decade ago instead of improving their existing browser to compete with IE.
- Avamander 7y ago> Not to mention that currently their existence is almost entirely dependent on their competitor - Google. You wrote this sentence, it talks about Firefox and implies something went wrong there?
- scarface74 7y agoJoel’s article was about Netscape. Firefox was the ultimate result of Netscape trying to rewrite Netscape Navigator.
- goto11 7y agoThe article is about the disastrous complete rewrite of the Netscape browser. More recently Mozilla have rewritten some parts of their browser in Rust, but this time they are doing it incrementally.