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		jventura on Oct 20, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Assorted Thoughts on Zig and Rust Maybe it's because Rust is backed by Mozilla, which is a bigger player than Zig's creator?

ChrisSD on Oct 20, 2020 | [–]

Rust is currently backed more by Amazon and Microsoft than it is by Mozilla. The main contribution of Mozilla is to hold the trademark on behalf of the Rust project.

the_mitsuhiko on Oct 20, 2020 | [–]

That if anything would have made me more suspicious. Mozilla had and still has an awful track record of keeping projects alive.

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