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How come since Mozilla let this go, it gets so much engagement through opening of issues? Which types of people are using this?
by botanical 3y ago
How come since Mozilla let this go, it gets so much engagement through opening of issues? Which types of people are using this?
- capableweb 3y agoMozilla laid off ~25% of their workforce, the Servo team was mostly (maybe even all?) fired in that layoff. https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/mozilla-cutting-250-jobs-after-coronavirus-pandemic-cuts-revenue/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/mozilla-cutting-250-jobs... Comments at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24128865 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24128865 (Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336 (Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products) In the end, I think Servo is better served by being in the Linux Foundation rather than under Mozilla, as Mozilla seems to stray further and further from the path they were walking a decade ago, sadly.
- wongarsu 3y agoServo seemed like a great project for Firefox. Both in the near term, by merging parts of servo like the CSS engine, and in the long term by promising a much better rendering engine than anything else on the market. But sadly good for Firefox doesn't mean good for Mozilla. Making a great browser isn't necessarily their highest priority.
- kvark 3y agoThe CSS engine as well as new renderer from Servo has made it into Firefox successfully. Servo has served well.
- ktosobcy 3y agowell...look at thunderbird - mozilla basically let it go as well and it made spectacular come back with a huge funding from users / community... as if user do like to contribute directly to the software development and not the mozilla org with it's weird golas... food for though...