D is the best tool for this!!! How do we tell them??

[Paulo Pinto]

On Saturday, 3 August 2024 at 23:04:06 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> On Saturday, 3 August 2024 at 18:52:42 UTC, Emmanuel wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Don't trust what they are saying, think backwards from their 
> conclusions.
>
> They could have pick 50 other languages, they could have 
> commissioned a new c subset and compiler, they could have made 
> calls for new languge that ports c easily but have such and 
> such safety features.
>
> Instead they picked rust, the language that killed firefox, has 
> no final spec and by all accounts is painful to work with. They 
> *wanted* to dig ditches to refill them.
>
> Why would they want this, well, congress made on-shoring 
> technology a priority a few years back, while silicone valley 
> was getting ready for the mass firings. From their prospective 
> keeping Americans employable with stem skills is a responsible 
> act for "the digital supply chain".

What killed Firefox are all the devs that ship Chrome everywhere 
with their Electron crap, and while complaining about Google, 
cannot care less to test anything else beyond Chrome.