Man. Von Braun? That’s not someone to name anything after.
Please read Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen.
What Von Braun did was beyond horrible so much so to make the death camps look less bad in comparison, which is really saying something.
They plowed through people making them death march then dig huge underground missile factories with their bare hands, then had them make missiles to kill their families and to help their enemies try to win the war, with the majority of them dying in the process.
Yes. The money should gone towards dev, but also testing.
According to the author, the problem contributing to this misprioritization was that “Firefox exists just to give Mozilla a seat at the table when the web is defined,” such that they didn’t care if it was the best. I doubt that’s true. Few want second, third, or fourth place. So let’s assume they wanted it to be the best. Where did it go wrong?
As much as Rust is great and FF was a great project to try it out on, I’m not convinced that FF needed a full rewrite, and in my experience there were significant problems with performance as Rust wasn’t fully there and the developers didn’t test adequately on all platforms, which they should’ve pushed more for if the funds were there.
The author should get back to it. Don’t leave a good thing.