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It's funny you chose Rust, because at face value, ignoring how useful the language is, creating a programming language from scratch for a browser seems a bit ov
by sofixa 4y ago
It's funny you chose Rust, because at face value, ignoring how useful the language is, creating a programming language from scratch for a browser seems a bit overkill and a waste of money/focus.
So you should either trust Mozilla the organisation to spend funds wisely, or not. Forcing them to spend only on Firefox can still result in "waste" from a purist perspective (like a programming language) while at the same time massively constraining them.
And i quite like some of Mozilla's alternative projects. Pocket is cool and genuinely useful. Thunderbird could use some love but is pretty decent.
- TuringTest 4y ago> It's funny you chose Rust, because at face value, ignoring how useful the language is, creating a programming language from scratch for a browser seems a bit overkill and a waste of money/focus. Rust was the right technical approach for this browser, given the existing technology and the problems they had to solve to update the rendering engine.
- sofixa 4y agoIt ended up being the right choice, but it's classic yak shaving.
- animuchan 4y agoPocket may be cool, but the way they forced it down everyone's collective throat was... bad. They later bought the company, so now it's a kind-of-Mozilla product inside another Mozilla product, which doesn't sound nearly as egregious as it was at launch: a forced third-party browser extension that couldn't be meaningfully disabled.