Mozilla and the burning need for clients for power users

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Mozilla seems to be asleep at the wheel, when it once drove online activity and communications. We have some suggestions where it could go.

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In recent years that seems to be eating into every major OS… but six months into the pandemic, Mozilla laid off the entire team, killing its next-gen rendering engine, Servo.

(Much of Mozilla's revenue comes from Google, of course. This couldn't be because Rust was, and is, outshining Google's GoLang? Surely not?)

How does one even make that connection? Why would Google be interested in such a topic? I'm pretty sure GoLang doesn't make them money directly, but rather as it streamlines their in-house work. I don't think they profit off this even a tiny bit.

Also GoLang, while probably not a better language in every aspect, has some very neat properties which set it apart from Rust (and vice versa).

Yeah it's a weird thing to say. Google pays Mozilla a HUGE amount of money to be Firefox's default search engine. Although the main reason they're happy to pay so much for that is that they WANT to keep at least one Chrome competitor alive, so they don't end up in an anti-trust shitfest like Microsoft did with Internet Explorer.

The bigger point here is that Go doesn't really compete with Rust or C++. Chromium is written in C++, not Go.