Less than two months ago NASA landed a rover on Mars which is powered by Linux. I struggle to see how git (as important as it has been), can really do better th

Less than two months ago NASA landed a rover on Mars which is powered by Linux. I struggle to see how git (as important as it has been), can really do better than that. And sure, Rust is great. It's lowered the barrier-of-entry to systems-level programming significantly compared to the alternatives. But, comparing it to Netscape/Firefox, and coming to the conclusion that Rust is Mozilla's greatest contribution is ridiculous. In a time where Microsoft was much more hostile to the tech industry and open-source in general, the landscape of web-browsers was an absolute mess thanks to Microsofts insistence on developing their own way of doing things contrary to accepted standards. Without Firefox and the work Mozilla did pushing back against Microsoft, there would be no Chrome. And while this may be a bold claim, there may have never been a NodeJS and the Javascript renaissance that the industry has seen over the last ten or so years. From my perspective, when Chrome burst onto the scene and gave us Firefox vs Chrome, it did feel a little bit like Microsoft vs Mozilla, except this time the monolithic corporation won, and we're all still sitting here wondering if we are better or worse off for it. Maybe I'm old or maybe I just don't get it, but this seems like we're rushing to throw away historical contributions because they aren't as cool and popular as the hot new stuff.