Mozilla announced its awards of funds to several open-source projects today. They were part of the MOSS (Mozilla Open Source Support) programme.
The Hunspell project/library proposed an idea requiring grant money. The following happened: >The Hunspell project maintains the premier open-source spell-checking engine. They proposed to rewrite their software in C++ using a more modern, streaming, embeddable design. We accepted their proposal, but also offered more funds and time to rewrite it in Rust instead. After considering carefully, the Hunspell team opted for the C++ option, but we are happy to have been able to offer them a choice.
They want it written in rust because it'll make it easily composable with Servo and all their new toys, while more effectively locking it out of Chrome because chromium doesn't have a way in their mess of a system to build rust dependencies.
Aiden Rivera
At least it wasn't more funds for an ethnically diverse team of crippled lesbians using Rust.
Elijah Walker
It's open source so it doesn't matter what language they use, it will be always be easy to use it anywhere.
Colton Collins
Rust is a mess. Rust is a big fat mistake.
Xavier Evans
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Levi Diaz
THIS JUST IN: Stallman shilling FOSS with conditional GPL licenses!
Seriously, sounds good to me. More money for open source projects, and more secure software for us.
Ryan King
It's almost like Mozilla has some reason for wanting things to use Rust.
Nathan Foster
You have no fucking idea what "shilling" means. It is not the same thing as "promoting". You might as well say that you are "shilling" food when you buy it, or "shilling" a service that you pay for. It makes no fucking sense. Not everything that involves paying for something is "shilling".
Jayden Hernandez
If you must give money to people for your language to take off, it's shit.
