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Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation

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Re: Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation

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Post by ChrisSD »

kowlo wrote: post #3

I know Mozilla played a big part w.r.t Rust, but it's strange to see this on the front page... we had this 2 days ago https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-02-08-hello-worl... , and now we have a low-effort blog post front-paging that is welcoming the foundation.

Indeed there were also announcements from Microsoft[0], Amazon[1] and Google[2], all of which were posted on the main thread. Are we going to have a new thread for each of them?

[0]: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2021/02/08/micro...

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/congratulations-rust...

[2]: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/02/google-joins-rust-...

Re: Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation

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Post by rob74 »

kowlo wrote: post #3

I know Mozilla played a big part w.r.t Rust, but it's strange to see this on the front page... we had this 2 days ago https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-02-08-hello-worl... , and now we have a low-effort blog post front-paging that is welcoming the foundation.

Mozilla also played a big part in this foundation being necessary after it laid off most of its employees involved in Rust last year. The foundation is a good idea of course, but they could have handled it better, e.g. setting up the foundation first, so that the Rust developers could transition to it without the disturbance and bad PR generated by the layoffs? It's not that Mozilla is so cash-strapped that it had to get rid of them immediately (at least not as far as I know)? Or was this the kind of drastic action some parents have to take in order to get their kids to finally move out?
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