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I‘d prefer if mozilla would have finished Firefox’ transition to Rust/Servo to make their core product dramatically better and start regaining browser share. S

I‘d prefer if mozilla would have finished Firefox’ transition to Rust/Servo to make their core product dramatically better and start regaining browser share. Seems that accumulating expensive C-suits, firing a chunk of their best engineers and building this instead was sexier.

sk2020 6y ago
Your budget is your priorities.
jdashg 6y ago
There was never a high-level plan to deprecate Gecko for Servo, nor C++ for Rust.
fulafel 6y ago
This is the classic problem described in The Mythical Man-Month. Recruiting more programmers to accelerate shipping your dev version just makes it later. edit: also it's not clear how accelerating Rust use (meaning rewrites) would help market share in the short or medium term. it seems more like a necessary investment for the long term survivability and has to be paced wisely, like it has so far.
- HappyDreamer 6y ago
  Not the Man-Month problem. > Recruiting more programmers to accelerate shipping The one you replied to wrote about firing people, not recruiting more people.