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Imagine investing years of effort to invent a new programming language to build a better browser in... and then when it's wildly successful, not using it. smh
by liminal 6y ago
Imagine investing years of effort to invent a new programming language to build a better browser in... and then when it's wildly successful, not using it. smh
- jamienicol 6y agoRust is still being used throughout Mozilla.
- liminal 6y agoIt is, but it was invented so that Mozilla could build a radically more performant browser. That was going to be Servo until they decided that replacing their rendering engine was too high risk. So now they have a radically more performant CSS styling library and all the problems they set out to solve are still there.