this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2024
1312 points (96.3% liked)

memes

10450 readers
2419 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to [email protected]

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/AdsNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

Sister communities

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
1312
"We've won, but at what cost?" (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
329 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] possiblylinux127 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't understand why you are about layoffs. They are cutting useless bloat. (VR didn't pan out go figure) Also Windows 7 isn't supported by Microsoft so it doesn't make sense to support it. It isn't even receiving security patches.

From a profitability perspective I think there is lots of potential in privacy tech. The problem is that they keep creating and then discontinuing random stuff.

I don't like Mozilla but the stuff you listed doesn't seem like the problem to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

laying off the servo staff at least was a mistake

[–] possiblylinux127 -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Servo has been integrated into Firefox. The old engine has been partially replaced that's why Firefox is fast now. Servo is now the old term for Gecko.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Servo is not the old name for Gecko. Gecko existed long before Servo was started and Servo continues to be developed independently of Mozilla. It was a research project to develop a web rendering engine in Rust taking advantage of parallelization. The parallelization stuff mostly made it through the Quantum project several years ago, which did indeed help performance. That's about it. As of right now, Gecko's code base 55.4% C++, 22.6% JavaScript, 4.5% C, 4.3% Kotlin and a mere 3.8% Rust. If Servo had indeed been integrated into Firefox, over half of this would be Rust. 53.2%, if the current Servo repository is anything to go by.

[–] possiblylinux127 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I personally think it is silly to try to keep alive. If it was good Mozilla would've used it more. You can have your own take though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

So you believe that Mozilla was just "cutting useless bloat" on the sole basis that "If it was good Mozilla would’ve used it more"? Yes, I think I will stick with my own take. They dropped it because making web engines is expensive and they no longer wanted to invest in making a new one in Rust. It was good, that's the entire reason people are complaining.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If they can't handle having thousands of extra employees then they shouldn't have hired them.

[–] possiblylinux127 2 points 3 months ago

You are completely right

However reality is hard to predict