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Firefox replaces more code in a month than Rusts' entire codebase even contains. Rusts' expenses are massively subsidized by donated staff time from over a dozen major tech companies.

Wikipedia is a fundamentally different beast serving static content with practically zero of the engineering overhead associated with Rust let alone with Firefox.

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>Firefox replaces more code in a month than Rusts' entire codebase even contains.

Point taken. Rust + LLVM is almost half of Firefox though, and probably at least equivalent in terms of necessary skill. It is also not clear how much of that code could be removed without much loss of functionality.

>Rusts' expenses are massively subsidized by donated staff time from over a dozen major tech companies.

This is called having a selling point. If Firefox offered anything besides not being Chromium, people would work on it without getting paid by Mozilla.

There's no such thing as a developer tooling subsidy for a web browser.

Okay. KDE is absolutely comparable to Firefox according to https://openhub.net/p/kde. Tiny fraction of the expenditure. I’m not even sure what their selling point is, but it’s a lot better than Mozilla’s.

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