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>>stevek+(OP)
I'm not clear on the specifics, but will Mozilla continue to finance active development in rust? The announcement is ambivalent on this, could they actually be trying to remove another cost factor from their portfolio?

>>awild+Ja
There are still Rust team members working at Mozilla, so yes.

>>pcwalt+zb
It’s not clear whether they will continue to be assigned to Rust, though. At least, I didn’t find this explicitly confirmed anywhere.

If anything, I’d love to know how many Mozilla employees were working on Rust full-time as their paid job before the layoffs, and then after. I can’t find these numbers cited anywhere.

Pietro’s sibling answer seems to be that Mozilla will transition to be a sponsor — I’d love to know whether this means they will keep investing development time (and how much).