The Tor Project is switching to Rust

I still wish Mozilla had kept oxidizing Firefox. It would have been a net positive for Rust itself.

Clearly, the fact that Servo failed must be indicative of shortcomings in Mozilla itself, and not Rust the language, its ecosystem, or its users.

Did it fail? The servo project seems alive and well, just not under Mozilla. They decided CEO pay packages were more important.

> Did it fail

13 years to get to v0.0.1 is a success? Look at how much progress Ladybird has made in a fraction of that time. Remember that these people are constantly starting rewrites of C and C++ projects (when they're not demanding others do it) in Rust "for safety" (and "oops it's MIT now"), even of ancient Unix utilities with minimal attack surfaces like the "date" command, yet when it comes to a browser rendering engine, which entails computationally-intensive, aggressively-optimized rendering of untrusted input--a massive attack surface, and the very thing for which Rust was supposedly designed--they somehow can't get the right combination of enough Rust zealots (and Adderall) to get past the finish line.

> 13 years to get to v0.0.1 is a success?

Wine took a roughly same amount of time to be versioned as well, but no one calls Wine a failure.