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Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time

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Re: Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time

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Post by AngeloAnolin »

tambourine_man wrote: post #5

7 million lines of code, Windows, Mac and Linux support… looks a lot of work for a single person.

There is likely a team working on this. The job posting said for someone to come on board.

And yes, hiring a single developer to work all alone by himself would be akin to killing the project itself as just understanding the codebase, design, technology and architecture would be too much for one person to handle.

We’re looking for an amazing developer to come on board to help make Thunderbird the best Email client on the planet!

Re: Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time

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Post by neilsimp1 »

igorkraw wrote: post #10

I wonder if they will oxidize(oxidate? rustify) it...

They listed C++ in the description, but not Rust. It would be cool if they did do a Rust re-write though.

They also mention XUL, which as I understand it isn't part of Firefox any longer.

Re: Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time

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Post by maltalex »

igorkraw wrote: post #10

I wonder if they will oxidize(oxidate? rustify) it...

There need to be a very compelling reason to rewrite 7 million lines of code in a different language. The fact that there were enough of those to rewrite Firefox doesn't mean that it makes sense for other projects.

Re: Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time

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Post by raverbashing »

As much as I think the action is commendable I have my questions about the role of an email client in today's market

Maybe they should think about how to make a mobile version of it. Still a mail client is a "solved problem". Most of email's problems are behind the client, not on it (like spam control)

Re: Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time

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Post by ChrisSD »

neilsimp1 wrote: post #14
igorkraw wrote: post #10

I wonder if they will oxidize(oxidate? rustify) it...

They listed C++ in the description, but not Rust. It would be cool if they did do a Rust re-write though. They also mention XUL, which as I understand it isn't part of Firefox any longer.

XUL is still part of Firefox and will be for a long time to come. However, add-on authors can't use it any longer.

Re: Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time

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Post by igorkraw »

neilsimp1 wrote: post #14
igorkraw wrote: post #10

I wonder if they will oxidize(oxidate? rustify) it...

They listed C++ in the description, but not Rust. It would be cool if they did do a Rust re-write though. They also mention XUL, which as I understand it isn't part of Firefox any longer.

Well, the nice thing is you don't need to rewrite in rust, you can refactor into it slowly
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