Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical infrastructure

Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by grumblenum on Friday June 18, 2021 @10:47PM (#27557309)

Well, Google probably doesn’t control all the C++ standards committees. I don’t know how much control they have over commit rights to the Rust compiler. Given Mozilla’s client-patron relationship with Google, then I’d guess it’s possible.

But, yeah, a company whose business model is tricking old people into buying junk and surveilling their users probably shouldn’t be implicitly trusted.

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Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by steveklabnik on Saturday June 19, 2021 @11:34AM (#27561380)

Google, nor Mozilla, controls who has commit rights to the Rust compiler.

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Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by grumblenum on Saturday June 19, 2021 @11:48AM (#27561520)

They just employ the people who do? And, until recently, the paid language evangelists?

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Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by steveklabnik on Saturday June 19, 2021 @11:56AM (#27561585)

Google employs a few people who have a commit bit, but they are handed out via consensus among the whole team, not by a single company or its employees.

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Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by grumblenum on Sunday June 20, 2021 @09:59AM (#27570027)

Right, and at one point the whole team were all or mostly Mozilla employees (which, financially, is a client company of Google). So the core team is a group of Mozilla alumni and their friends. Unlike, say, C++ which is under diverse committees across multiple countries.

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