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Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla(blog.mozilla.org)
75 points by Etzos 5y ago|100 comments
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by Etzos 6y ago
Do you have any articles or any info on why they decided to stop using Rust? I remember seeing things about them using Rust but never saw anything about them not using it and I'm curious.
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by Etzos 6y ago
It's really sad because this is the first time I heard about this campaign. Had I known earlier I would have pledged sooner and spread the word around.
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by Etzos 7y ago
I'm pretty sure this is a dupe of a post from just a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22098001
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by Etzos 7y ago
I think this might need a 2013 tag?
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by Etzos 9y ago
That seems like something that wouldn't be super valuable to put in place until all of the commands are completed, or at least close to completed.
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by Etzos 9y ago
I'm curious what parts of Rust you think are safer than Python. Edit: The only big thing I can think of is the safety of compile-time type checking to ensure you won't end up with some kind of runtime error from mismatched types.
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by Etzos 9y ago
I don't think that analogy is a fair comparison to make because it doesn't fairly portray that Purism doesn't have a choice in this. It is the upstream manufacturers who control this area, and they will have no reason at all
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by Etzos 9y ago
I suppose I can understand this reasoning a bit, but it seems a little counter intuitive to me. There is literally no alternative. And without efforts like this it's unlikely there would ever be something that is RYF compliant. Accompl
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by Etzos 9y ago
Considering how they phrased it and the fact that no phone has the FSF's RYF certification I would tend to think it's because it's currently impossible. That they took the time to add a note about RYF certification and that t
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by Etzos 9y ago
I don't exactly see the Linux kernel dev community as being inclusive, so that's not really an apt comparison. Nor is it a language-based community. It's a very specific set of people who are expected to follow the rules and
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by Etzos 9y ago
> Write a code of conduct, make sure everyone is respected, and make that the end of it. But that's exactly what all of your examples are. In each situation the decision and action was to make things as neutral and inclusive as poss
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by Etzos 9y ago
But it's true that there's nothing inherently "bad" about the code. It's just not conforming to the standard style. It seems pretty reasonable to want that to sound less menacing than "bad code", which wou
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by Etzos 9y ago
This looks like it needs a (2016) tag in the title.
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by Etzos 9y ago
I'm not sure this really makes sense. It sounds like RedHat didn't hammer it down throats, but instead created a solution that had some guarantees of support and traction which distro maintainers then decided was better than the c
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by Etzos 9y ago
Number 6 (more customization, highlighting complete themes) and number 8 (unique extensions, highlighting Tree Style Tabs) are shortly going to be things of the past. Neither of those features are fully set to make it past version 57 since
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by Etzos 9y ago
It's not as user-hostile as I originally assumed (I thought it was built and enabled with no option to turn it off). As long as it can be completely disabled so that nothing will ever touch it, then it's fine. And that does indeed
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by Etzos 9y ago
The title is slightly misleading since it is specifically the optional (but installed by default on Ubuntu) systemd-resolved package (an ancillary package under the systemd name), not systemd the init system as I think many people will assu
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by Etzos 9y ago
I regularly use VS Code, and this is one of the few features that I don't miss much until I need it, and then I really, really wish it had support for it. This is definitely one of the major negatives for VS Code.
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by Etzos 9y ago
I see this kind of thing mentioned a lot which really disappoints me because systemd is not as monolithic as people seem to think it is. systemd (the init system) is a relatively small component with a modest set of dependencies. systemd (t
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by Etzos 9y ago
This is somewhat off-topic, but I'm curious since every person who has had this sentiment that I've known was unable to provide specific parts which were lacking. Do you perhaps have a short list of top things which are missing th
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by Etzos 9y ago
The 7.6 release was no more unstable than the 8.0 release. Unless you're referring to the fact that 8.0 is going to be a LTS release. But if that's the case, it's not happening for a while yet, 6.10 is still the current LTS v
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by Etzos 9y ago
Async/await support (without the --harmony flag) was made default in version 7.6 when they updated V8 to version 5.5. The biggest additions here with regard to async/await is the new promisify util and the async_hooks. Edit: Chang
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by Etzos 9y ago
> It's the fourth most downloaded crate.[1] Somebody may have "deprecated" it, but the users aren't paying attention. The most downloaded stat appears to be for the most downloaded of all time. Considering the difficu
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by Etzos 9y ago
As someone who hasn't followed the actual specifics here, do you happen to have any links to those discussions/issues or other places these things happened? I'd really like to see their reasoning.
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by Etzos 9y ago
This seems like a bit of a knee-jerk reaction on your part. The article itself is interesting and points out an edge case which is likely to trip people up in certain situations. I don't really see the article mentioning or even hintin
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by Etzos 9y ago
But how do you know it was because of Roundup? Just because they used Roundup does not necessarily mean that that's what caused the cancer, even if Roundup's ingredients are carcinogenic. So how are you so certain it was the Round
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by Etzos 9y ago
Servo uses SpiderMonkey to provide Javascript support, so retiring Octane (a Javascript engine benchmark) would have nothing to do with Servo (a layout engine).
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by Etzos 9y ago
This is also in a similar boat. I'm having a hard time pinning down anything of any serious relevance from the GNOME/GTK side of things, but there is this[1] which shows that they had planned work on Wayland prior to the Mir annou
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by Etzos 9y ago
> But now that you mention it, it's true that wayland was stagnating and that when Mir arrived, everything accelerated. Sometime having a common enemy is a good motivator. This seems to be something a lot of people believe, but when

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