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Dear Mozilla. Can you venture fund yourselves to fuel development of Firefox so it is less sucky? Or just fully fun development of rust and rust ecosystem and

• aitchnyu 4y ago
  Is Mozilla advancing rust or other interesting tech now?
  • v3ss0n 4y ago
    Rust is born out of Firefox project. Firefox is now written in rust.
    • Rebelgecko 4y ago
      To be more specific, less than 10% of Firefox is written in rust, according to their lines of code stats. Looking at how Servo was put out to pasture, I dont know how much that will grow under Mozilla's stewardship?
    • pjmlp 4y ago
      That was the original idea, until they fired most of the developers that eventually found a job at Apple, Amazon, Oxide, Microsoft, Google, Ferrous Systems... They are now driving where Rust goes, and it isn't in Firefox which has stop rewriting stuff and now adopted WebAssembly sandboxing instead. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/02/securing-firefox-with-webassembly/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/02/securing-firefox-with-weba...