Is there anything specific about Rust that you don’t think a commercial organisation would do?
Obviously, commercial organisations have a long track record of developing and supporting programming languages.
Obviously, commercial organisations have a long track record of developing and supporting programming languages.
Enterprises tend to invest in <5 year projects, I've noted, and 5 years is a hell of a long time for an extended investment.
This is inaccurate, the URL parser never was and still isn't in a released Firefox.
The first Rust in a released firefox was the mp4 metadata code.
It's worth noting that in those 7 years Servo advanced a lot, which meant that the Stylo project didn't have to rewrite a style system, just take an existing one and polish it. (This is still a lot of work, but not as much)
A good job. Most commercial PL efforts kind of suck. There are a small number of exceptions, and Rust is one of them.
You could argue survivorship bias but that applies to Rust as well.
And probably, Kotlin has made it even simpler than Java.
So, it's an evolving process.
On the other hand, JavaScript - though still painful - has no alternatives... hence, JavaScript is still OK - without any close competitor!