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Mozilla also has struggles staying competitive with its core products. The main criticism of Rust as a solution to safety concerns is about that kind of outcome
by humanrebar 3y ago
Mozilla also has struggles staying competitive with its core products. The main criticism of Rust as a solution to safety concerns is about that kind of outcome.
Obviously Mozilla's challenges are multifaceted and don't boil down to user-invisible code rewrites. But, at best, switching to Rust was an orthogonal engineering concern that has opportunity costs.
- dralley 3y agoFirefox is competitive, their struggle is primarily that their competition is Microsoft, Apple, and Google, who have both practically endless wells of money, control over the computing platforms, and vastly more mindshare. There's no technical solution to that problem.
- humanrebar 3y agoYeah, that's a valid take. But if that's true, then Rust isn't giving them an edge (yet?). So it isn't the most important engineering task. If you're saying there's no technical path to success for Mozilla... well, that might be true, but I could see that being demotivating for Mozilla engineers.