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>Maybe Mozilla has run its course< most certainly not technically given for instance : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24817304 https://news.ycombinator.c

• gilrain 6y ago
  Well, they laid off the entire Servo team, which was effectively their R&D and was responsible for many of the recent performance wins in Firefox. So, certainly yes technically.
  • jhoechtl 6y ago
    Didn't the servo team mostly dabble with Rust? What a bad idea from the very beginning to invent a new language and base core components on it when all you have to to is speed up an exisitng product and you are already using the fastest known language fot that task (--> C). A slow Firefox was an architectural problem not because of choosing the wrong tooling.
    • ylyn 6y ago
      Languages are not just about speed. And Rust is plenty fast.
    • nemothekid 6y ago
      I can’t tell if this is a sarcastic remark or if you truly believe speeding up something as complex as a browser is a cake walk. Two big reasons Rust was invented was to (1) easily parallelize the renderer without introducing many bugs (2) speed up the browser without introducing many exploits. It’s common knowledge now in applications like Chrome (and even Windows) that memory errors are the largest source of CVEs and that type of exploit is almost impossibly difficult to cause in Rust