Why not Google buys Mozilla to beat Swift?

Posted by alpisv on Friday June 06, 2014 @04:16AM
from the self-post dept.

Reasons: 1. Firefox is losing. 2. With Apple moving to Swift, Google needs a better language than Go to replace Java on Android, but can not wait 4 years. So Mozilla's Rust is good choice second to none.

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Re:Why not Google buys Mozilla to beat Swift? by heldrida on Friday June 06, 2014 @07:07AM (#7857153)

Would you really need to buy Mozilla to use Rust lang ? For App development, isn't Go a nicer language then Java ? And isn't that enough ? Firefox, just released Firefox OS. It's been my primary Browser under Ubuntu and Mac OSX.

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Re:Why not Google buys Mozilla to beat Swift? by alpisv on Friday June 06, 2014 @10:02PM (#7861031)

Go is not good enough at expression. Firefox's market is dropping.

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