• @[email protected]
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    415 months ago

    a Herculean undertaking with too few engineers and too many standards

    Yeah, as a layperson this is my take. If mozilla is struggling to stay in the game then I just don’t really see how an unfinanced indie team has a shot.

    • @merthyr1831
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      25 months ago

      Mozilla has loads of projects, not just the browser. I doubt more than a 30 work exclusively on the engine nowadays.

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        35 months ago

        Even if that were true, and it seems unlikely, that’s still an order of magnitude more than the ladybug devs.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      Let’s not forget that Mozilla (the company) is largely mismanaged, so that doesn’t help.

      • @[email protected]
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        45 months ago

        It might seem that way but it’s a fairly arrogant assertion. They’re a sophisticated organisation with a lot of well experienced people guiding them. As an outsider it’s easy to criticise their seemingly endless series of bad decisions, but I’m still confident that internally all of these decisions seemed like a good idea at the time.

        Besides which, this would be a good reason to fork their codebase rather than starting from scratch.