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by aloha2436 207 days ago
> Rust and LLVM that rival Firefox in complexity with 1/10 the combined expenses

You could argue LLVM is technically of a similar level of complexity, but operating a browser requires far more actual business than developing a compiler.

More to the point, those organisations get enormous amounts of "free" labour in the form of contributions from large corporations that benefit from them, in a way that Firefox absolutely does not.