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> Is this what Mozilla employees are being paid to do these days? Mozilla amazes me with their org-bloat-to-products-they-sell-for-money ratio. They have prog
by jrockway 5y ago
> Is this what Mozilla employees are being paid to do these days?
Mozilla amazes me with their org-bloat-to-products-they-sell-for-money ratio. They have programming language teams, research bloggers, occasional splashy products, an in-house bug tracker, and oh yeah, they make a web browser.
I don't know how they do it, but it seems to be working out for them. If I was the CEO of a company that only had one customer, I would probably not be hiring software engineers to write a programming language that's not even used for the core product. But, I guess that's why nobody ever asks me to be the CEO of a company!
- nx7487 5y ago> I would probably not be hiring software engineers to write a programming language that's not even used for the core product. Rust is used in Firefox
- tomerv 5y agoI'm really glad that Mozilla is developing Rust. Even though I'm not using it (and haven't even learned it), it looks like a net positive for the world of software development. This is exactly the kind of thing that a nonprofit should do.
- ksherlock 5y agoMost of the rusty Mozilla team was laid off last year. Also: the MDN team.