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[–] Geodad@lemm.ee 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why can't they just use the Wikipedia model? That should bring in enough to cover development and operating costs.

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Because a browser is several orders of magnitudee more complex than a website.

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wikimedia is even using php still. Firefox created Rust I believe, in order to advance.

[–] denshi@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Rust was originally created by a Mozilla dev as a hobby project. Also, the Mozilla rust team was fired in 2020 during a "restructuring".