As of just now, we&#x27;ve had 1323 contributors to the main repository, not counting Cargo, some crates, or the website, for example.<p>Mozilla is paying virtually all of the people who are working on it full-time, but there are a lot of people doing a lot of work in their spare time too.<p><pre><code>  &gt; with the way things have been going the past few years
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If you&#x27;re referring to the projects which have been dropped over the past few years, I can see that. At the same time, Firefox is the core product, and Rust is already in Firefox, so dropping it doesn&#x27;t seem likely. The amount will only be increasing.