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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by steveklabnik on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @04:32PM (#24125635)
(I've been staying out of all of these threads, but to be clear, the number of people employed to work on Rust by Mozilla is more like 3 or 4, not 12. It's been shrinking for quite a while.)
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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by AsyncAwait on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @04:41PM (#24125732)
My bad, that was a pure guess, because even 12 is not much for a major language like Rust, but 3-4 is absolutely tiny.
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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by steveklabnik on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @04:45PM (#24125770)
Yeah it's all good. It was that big at one point, making it even easier to think of that way.
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