Mark
Rust is not Mozilla's core business
but, potentially, is of great interest to other companies. Right?
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Agreed, as the donations I did in past can be considered absolutely irrelevant :)
As an aside, I feel less and less satisfied with DuckDuckGo and it intrigues me more and more the idea of trying Bing for a while.
Spoiler: Bing consistently lists at the top (among first three, mostly two, when not first) MDN resources for a few searches I did, Google generally does not.
Mark
Losing a lot of employees makes it sound bad, no matter how it's announced.
But it should be kept in mind that adapting is of course much better than continuing on the same path if things aren't going so great. So let's hope it all works well :-)
I actually first noticed the changes because people were moved off the Rust team. I can totally understand that, Rust is not Mozilla's core business, but as a Rust-lover its sad.
Personally I like Firefox and I'll probably keep using it for the forseeable future. At work I sometimes use Chrome. I slightly prefer Firefox for features and addons. And I think it's good for the internet to have an open organisation and less monopoly. It does use more ram in my experience, but not a lot.
Finally: I'm wondering what the best way to support Mozilla is.
(I think in a way devs like me are not good for Mozilla, because Mozilla gets most of their money from making Google default search engine, but if Google stops and the default changes, devs are not going to be using Bing instead. So maybe the sponsoring is mostly for less tech savvy people not knowledgeable enough to change search engine.)