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by kaba0 1856 days ago
No? Like there is enough surface area to work on multiple unrelated parts of Firefox at the same time.

Also, Rust team is most definitely not killed, Servo is, which frankly, made perfect sense. Developing one browser engine is hard enough as is, let alone two.
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j-pb 1856 days ago
You contradict yourself. If there's enough surface area, then there's enough for alternative and better engines.

Rust & Wasmtime: https://mobile.twitter.com/tschneidereit/status/129386814195...

Dev Tools & All of MDN: https://mobile.twitter.com/SteveALee/status/1293487542382333...

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kaba0 1856 days ago
There is an increasing amount of Rust being incorporated into Firefox, it is just not Servo.

And while it is possible to develop two browser engines at the same time (though it is not surface area, it is a different module competing for the same spot, so no, I’m not contradicting myself), it is still a dumb decision to split the already few people with the necessary technical knowhow around such an advanced domain. Otherwise you would see thousands of browsers out there, yet all we have (ones that implement a reasonable amount of the web standards) is chrome+edge, safari and firefox.

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