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<But Firefox Quantum only exists because of Servo> Which is why, for the life of me, I just can't see the logic of firing the Servo team.

HugoDaniel 6y ago
Money and hierarchy
tarkin2 6y ago
Hasn’t the quantum project been successful? It seemed like project accomplished to me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24164058 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24164058 It’s not like they binned servo and decided not to use it improve ff. It did improve ff. They seem to have decided that’s done and finished now. And there’s no longer any need to work on it - whether that’s a wise move or not is obviously up for debate.
- kinleyd 6y ago
  Quantum was just one of the milestones, albeit an important one. Servo continues to develop and pass on many more features to Firefox. Shutting it down is basically shutting the major pipeline of progress that has gotten so many of us excited over Mozilla in the past several years. The decision does not augur well for Firefox and Mozilla.
  - gruturo 6y ago
    I concur, it’s quite insane. All their initiatives brought back tiny, tiny figures compared to the google search deal. And that deal is so profitable because Firefox still has a decent market share. Torpedoing the technological future of their browser is bound to reduce that share, at which point Google will likely offer much less money. They are basically shooting their one trick pony in a leg, deliberately. It’s.... not smart.
    - anonymousab 6y ago
      It makes a ton of sense if you look at it from the perspective of what leadership has been seeing: All this effort on maintaining their own browser engine, met with continued decline and further irrelevancy. Despite best efforts, a likely trend towards disaster. In the face of that, it would be reasonable to think that the cost is nowhere near worth the effort, compared to just adopting Chromium. I think it'd be very easy for them to think that their goals for the modern web are not intrinsically tied to having their own, completely separate software.
- stjohnswarts 6y ago
  Because maybe innovation should continue? some of the teams I can see closing for financial reasons but the servo team? that's like slashing your own wrists to see what happens.

HugoDaniel 6y ago

Money and hierarchy

tarkin2 6y ago

Hasn’t the quantum project been successful? It seemed like project accomplished to me. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24164058 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24164058 It’s not like they binned servo and decided not to use it improve ff. It did improve ff. They seem to have decided that’s done and finished now. And there’s no longer any need to work on it - whether that’s a wise move or not is obviously up for debate.

kinleyd 6y ago
Quantum was just one of the milestones, albeit an important one. Servo continues to develop and pass on many more features to Firefox. Shutting it down is basically shutting the major pipeline of progress that has gotten so many of us excited over Mozilla in the past several years. The decision does not augur well for Firefox and Mozilla.
- gruturo 6y ago
  I concur, it’s quite insane. All their initiatives brought back tiny, tiny figures compared to the google search deal. And that deal is so profitable because Firefox still has a decent market share. Torpedoing the technological future of their browser is bound to reduce that share, at which point Google will likely offer much less money. They are basically shooting their one trick pony in a leg, deliberately. It’s.... not smart.
  - anonymousab 6y ago
    It makes a ton of sense if you look at it from the perspective of what leadership has been seeing: All this effort on maintaining their own browser engine, met with continued decline and further irrelevancy. Despite best efforts, a likely trend towards disaster. In the face of that, it would be reasonable to think that the cost is nowhere near worth the effort, compared to just adopting Chromium. I think it'd be very easy for them to think that their goals for the modern web are not intrinsically tied to having their own, completely separate software.
stjohnswarts 6y ago
Because maybe innovation should continue? some of the teams I can see closing for financial reasons but the servo team? that's like slashing your own wrists to see what happens.