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| Posted by Paulo Pinto in reply to monkyyy | PermalinkReply |
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Paulo Pinto
Posted in reply to monkyyy
| On Saturday, 3 August 2024 at 23:04:06 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> On Saturday, 3 August 2024 at 18:52:42 UTC, Emmanuel wrote:
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Don't trust what they are saying, think backwards from their conclusions.
They could have pick 50 other languages, they could have commissioned a new c subset and compiler, they could have made calls for new languge that ports c easily but have such and such safety features.
Instead they picked rust, the language that killed firefox, has no final spec and by all accounts is painful to work with. They wanted to dig ditches to refill them.
Why would they want this, well, congress made on-shoring technology a priority a few years back, while silicone valley was getting ready for the mass firings. From their prospective keeping Americans employable with stem skills is a responsible act for "the digital supply chain".
What killed Firefox are all the devs that ship Chrome everywhere with their Electron crap, and while complaining about Google, cannot care less to test anything else beyond Chrome.
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