Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation

Re:Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation by Mikhail_K on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @11:00AM (#26090914)

> Mozilla already tried re-writing the CSS engine in C++ before. They failed

Blaming the tool for own failure to do the job isn't all that persuasive.

> C++ simply wasn't usable for writing a parallel CSS engine.

It might be not so much the proof of C++ deficiency as simply another manifestation of mismanagement of the browser development by Mozilla Foundation.

> But Rust’s fearless concurrency has made parallelism practical!"

Because nobody ever wrote concurrent systems in C++?

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Re:Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation by monopoledance on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @12:44PM (#26092339)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot

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Re:Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation by Mikhail_K on Thursday February 11, 2021 @09:06AM (#26101607)

> Because nobody ever wrote concurrent systems in C++?

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Re:Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation by wtetzner on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @01:30PM (#26092965)

> Blaming the tool for own failure to do the job isn't all that persuasive.

I would argue it is persuasive if switching to a new tool lead to success. What would be the point of continuing to try the thing that's not working?

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Re:Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation by Mikhail_K on Thursday February 11, 2021 @09:00AM (#26101555)

However you might describe the present state of firefox, "success" is unlikely to be one of the adjectives.

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Re:Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation by wtetzner on Thursday February 11, 2021 @12:27PM (#26104405)

Stylo is a technical success, regardless of how you feel about Firefox.

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