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It's so sad that Mozilla blamed covid for this, as never before people have been spending so much time at home and in front of their computers, causing record e
by est31 5y ago
It's so sad that Mozilla blamed covid for this, as never before people have been spending so much time at home and in front of their computers, causing record earnings for digital companies. Including Google, which finances Firefox.
Daily usage time of Firefox has actually went up around April 2020, by around 24 minutes and has been at that level since.
https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
Also the employees found really good employment at other companies so there seems to be high demand for Rust developers, at least in the USA, and at least for this segment of the market.
- kaba0 5y agoWriting one browser engine is an insurmountable task in itself, let alone two. It is sad that servo didn’t happen, but it was the correct decision.