"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla
From many of the comments in this thread, one might think that FAANG companies invented the concept of open source software or that software doesn&#x27;t exist outside the context of a &quot;profit model.&quot;  Whatever is going on at Mozilla right now, the notion that a piece of open source software even needs to be profitable (let alone supported by a single large company) in order to continue existing is ridiculous.<p>I&#x27;ll concede that there are unique challenges associated with developing a web browser (it&#x27;s certainly a moving target) and that there need to be several people working on it full time, but is that really something that can only happen when one big company&#x2F;organization is funding the project?  As for Rust, maybe someone could point me in the direction of the one benevolent large company that&#x27;s backing GCC&#x2F;G++ or CPython or Ruby?<p>I&#x27;m not saying what&#x27;s going on with Mozilla isn&#x27;t absolutely terrible, but the notion that Firefox or Rust are going to somehow just go away (and that this is what was destined to happen all along because Mozilla is not profitable) just doesn&#x27;t really make any sense.