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Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by WilTimSon on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:43PM (#22058286)
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.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by dan_quixote on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @06:36PM (#22060069)
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.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by dman on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:51PM (#22058393)
Perhaps Rust is delivering better than expected results.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by the_duke on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:56PM (#22058456)
Only a tiny part of Firefox is in Rust now.

See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation#Rust_Components .

Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by diegocg on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:26PM (#22058841)
Also, Rust code can have security bugs. Memory safety bugs are not the only kind of bugs.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by Paul-ish on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:49PM (#22071689)
Rust code integrated into a C/C++ codebase can have memory safety bugs too unfortunately.
Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by dman on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @04:29PM (#22058879)
Do Mozilla execs understand this?