Re:Firefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL
by lost_womble on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @06:55AM
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Firefox is around 8% of market share in the US on non-mobile devices -- up from around 4.5% this time last year. It's downright wrong to see 80% increase in users over 12 months as 'dying' -- and in general 1 in 12 users is significant enough that you should be caring about it.
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Re:Firefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL
by Y_Y on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @08:05AM
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Commenters seen to live declaring things to be dying, and marketshare trends are only tangentially related. (see e.g. "Netcraft confirms it" meme)
I personally feel like softeare is dead once it is no longer useful, and there is no likelihood of that changing in the foreseeable future. That's obviously not the case woth Firefox.
On the other hand I've seen exaggerated reports of the demise of a project that hasn't had a git commit in the last week, or isn't commercially relevant for whatever the commenter is interested in. Even this doesn't seem to me to be true for Firefox, but I don't think the accusations will stop, or the signal-to-noise will increase.