Re:Mozilla lays off 70
by WilTimSon on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:43PM
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I'm surprised they're laying off security and QA, considering how focused on privacy and security their marketing campaign seems to be. In the last 6 months, I think 90% of cases where I saw Mozilla mentioned were about how it's the 'hot new browser' for the privacy-concerned. Although, perhaps, that's more to do with a good marketing team and less with a sprawling security department? Would love to see some expert opinion on what this means for the company's current trajectory.
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Re:Mozilla lays off 70
by dan_quixote on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @06:36PM
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Unless they really were redundant, firing QA/Security/Release engineers strikes me as an act of desperation. Cutting back on those disciplines will really jack up the interest rate on your tech debt.
Perhaps Rust is delivering better than expected results.
Only a tiny part of Firefox is in Rust now.
Also, Rust code can have security bugs. Memory safety bugs are not the only kind of bugs.
Rust code integrated into a C/C++ codebase can have memory safety bugs too unfortunately.