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by dralley 1527 days ago
Please don't spout nonsense. They did not let go of "everyone related to Rust", large parts of Firefox are written in Rust and those parts obviously need to be maintained. New Rust code continues to be written, as others have pointed out.

What Mozilla did do was lay off many of the people working on Rust itself as their full-time job, as opposed to people who use Rust to do their work at Mozilla. And the Servo team, unfortunately.
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pjmlp 1527 days ago
Hence why I mentioned "as far as I am aware" instead of stating is a fact.

The 10% as pointed out in a sibling comment, while admirable isn't large parts.

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dralley 1527 days ago
It's more than it sounds like.

As you can see from the breakdown someone posted [0], almost two-thirds of the Firefox codebase is HTML / JavaScript / Python (for tests) / assembly / Java (for Android), none of which is a candidate for being rewritten in Rust to begin with.

If you just look at the portion written in native system languages, Rust is slightly more than 1/3 of that code already and still climbing.

[0] https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/

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