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by GuB-42 1849 days ago
Rust was supposed to be the basis of servo, a truly awesome engine that should have been under the hood of Firefox long ago. That should have been the best thing to come out of Mozilla.

We got some of it: the Rust language and Quantum. I would say the only two good things that Mozilla did in the last 10 years.

Finally, in 2020, the Servo and Rust team got the recognition they deserved, they got laid off...

It is almost like the old joke with the rower, where on a boat race, a team of eight people rowing and one steering beats a team with one person rowing and 8 steering. The losing team change its structure, now with a complex hierarchy but still a single rower, who eventually gets fired.