> including the devs who work on their core product (Firefox/Browser Engine)
Ummm, no, in general those were the devs who weren’t laid off. (I am a Mozilla employee)
Didn’t the Firefox DevTools team get pretty hard with layoffs?
They did, unfortunately. But the rest of the Firefox group was left mostly intact.
Re:WebThings Gateway 1.0
by lloydatkinson on Sunday December 06, 2020 @08:26AM
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I consider the Rust based browser engine a core part of that, and they were fired, so my statement isn't incorrect.
Organizationally they were part of the Emerging Technologies Group, not the Firefox Group.
And contrary to popular belief, there were no plans to replace Gecko with Servo wholesale, so I don’t really think it is accurate to think of it as “core” to Firefox.
I will reevaluate it in a year, if it still exists, because it's actually a pretty nice platform to use.