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7/12/2025, 5:02:53 PM
>>105881809
yeah, i know, i package firefox myself as well and rustc is such a slow pain. But that is really mostly dev tools and the crash reporter.
In fact, finishing to rewrite the crash reporter into Rust was their largest success:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Rust-Crash-Reporter
Servo was dropped in 2020, when Mozilla laid of 250 people, the Servo team was part of that. It was then gifted to the Linux Foundation and was dormant.
Three years later, they got some new funding coming in and currently they are doing busywork (comparable to OpenOffice under Apache), but no actual tangible progress.
When the CREATOR of Rust has to dump and cancel its Rust projects, because it's going nowhere, you really know just how bad his is...
yeah, i know, i package firefox myself as well and rustc is such a slow pain. But that is really mostly dev tools and the crash reporter.
In fact, finishing to rewrite the crash reporter into Rust was their largest success:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Rust-Crash-Reporter
Servo was dropped in 2020, when Mozilla laid of 250 people, the Servo team was part of that. It was then gifted to the Linux Foundation and was dormant.
Three years later, they got some new funding coming in and currently they are doing busywork (comparable to OpenOffice under Apache), but no actual tangible progress.
When the CREATOR of Rust has to dump and cancel its Rust projects, because it's going nowhere, you really know just how bad his is...
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