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The organization that gave the world Rust, Web Assembly, and countless other useful technologies is in a probable death spiral, and most of the blame goes to Mi
by billiam 3y ago
The organization that gave the world Rust, Web Assembly, and countless other useful technologies is in a probable death spiral, and most of the blame goes to Mitchell Baker. If Mozilla was not primarily driven by greed and laziness, smart people that still exist in around Firefox would have made the difficult technical decisions needed to continue to ship a useful product that protects user privacy while still being easy to support in a world dominated by Chrome and Safari.
- beretguy 3y agoFirefox needs new useful features to attract people. Like tab groups, tab position, other useful stuff…
- nwah1 3y agoI, personally, hate those features. Tab groups were just added to my browser, and my first thought was how to turn it off. Firefox initially won users by being the fastest. And then lost users when it wasn't the fastest.
- nojvek 3y agoFirefox letting go of many important teams such as MDN, Rust etc was its death knell in developer community. Mitchell Baker will surely get a golden parachute even if Firefox is sold for scraps.
- quesera 3y agoIf it takes a hundred million dollars to get Mitchell to leave Mozilla, it would be money well-spent. Just do it soon.
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