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It's not clear to me that they are replacing it bit-by-bit. https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ I don't have a
by suby 3y ago
It's not clear to me that they are replacing it bit-by-bit.
https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/ https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/
I don't have an over-time series, but if you're willing to take my memory at its word Rust's percentage has hovered at around 10% for a while now. It seems to have actually gone down recently. Combine that with efforts like Servo being wound down and their team being let go, and it makes me wonder what the future of Rust looks like in Firefox.
If anyone can shed some light on this I'd be interesting to know.
- tomashubelbauer 3y agoThis chart looks like it could use some filtering for what constitutes a language used to build Firefox. It seems questionable that HTML is used to build 16 % of it. I suspect that is a result of test cases being included in the chart as it is based off of the whole repo. I checked out the repository and it doesn't have the GitHub language bar I see on other repos, so I can't click the HTML bit in it to filter down the HTML files in the repo and see if they are mostly tests or not, but it is hard to imagine they would be anything else. Maybe bits of the browser Chrome but still, that wouldn't be a whole 16 % I think.
- nashashmi 3y agoI think they stopped the rebuild. They were previously building a new browser engine called servo. Some of that work made it through to Firefox gecko. And then team was gutted.