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Why do you think the choice of programming language will change the usage of a browser or its engine?

It's not really about the language itself but the people and politics surrounding it.

To be clear your claim is that because Google chrome has some use of a programming language where the community leans left, people are going to meaningfully stop using chrome?

Some people are so fragile…

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think they're talking about state level politics.

Maybe I’m missing some recent events but I’ve only heard or seen anything political in regard to state political leanings and especially “identity politics”.

Just feels weird to feel so strongly about that aspect of a programming language. If people held a principled view they’d be horrified of how militaries use anything and everything mainstream.

I'm pretty sure they're talking about the community politics. There has been plenty of drama around rust.

When Firefox added Rust, there were some forks, and threats of forks. Just how it goes. Turns out maintaining a fork of a browser is not exactly easy, and “we don’t like a language it’s written in” isn’t a fantastic way for people to decide to use your fork over the main project.

Time will tell, I guess…

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