> mozilla locked as too heated and limited conversation to collaborators.
I wonder which one was objected to - the implementation considered to be in Rust or that a rewrite might not actually make sense for the dying browser (2.75% share) at this stage?
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.
Commenters seen to love 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.
I wonder which one was objected to - the implementation considered to be in Rust or that a rewrite might not actually make sense for the dying browser (2.75% share) at this stage?