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I would have preferred Rust, a language created by Mozilla instead of one with ties to Apple, but I'm not a dev so I can't really judge. What are your thoughts?

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[–] InternetCitizen2 78 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Rust was made by Mozilla? TIL

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yep. It was developed to improve parallelization and security of Firefox. Many core parts of Firefox have been replaced with Rust implementations.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

I see now. Rust is the color of fox, and foxes eat crabs. It all makes sense now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I thought it was weird such an old piece of software had so much Rust in it. I noticed all the Rust-related things while ~~Firefox~~ Librewolf compiles but never looked into it further.