Mozilla has loads of projects, not just the browser. I doubt more than a 30 work exclusively on the engine nowadays.
Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks agoa Herculean undertaking with too few engineers and too many standards
Yeah, as a layperson this is my take. If mozilla is struggling to stay in the game then I just don’t really see how an unfinanced indie team has a shot.
merthyr1831@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Even if that were true, and it seems unlikely, that’s still an order of magnitude more than the ladybug devs.
Scrollone@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
Let’s not forget that Mozilla (the company) is largely mismanaged, so that doesn’t help.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
It might seem that way but it’s a fairly arrogant assertion. They’re a sophisticated organisation with a lot of well experienced people guiding them. As an outsider it’s easy to criticise their seemingly endless series of bad decisions, but I’m still confident that internally all of these decisions seemed like a good idea at the time.
Besides which, this would be a good reason to fork their codebase rather than starting from scratch.