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.
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.
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.
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.
laying off the servo staff at least was a mistake
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.
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.
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