An entire web browser could be written from scratch independently for that kinda cash.
That's so disappointing that I don't think I can ever look at Mozilla or Firefox the same way again. As a software engineer, I would not work at an organization with such a huge discrepancy in pay. It almost makes me feel better about a lifetime of failure, so I guess I should be grateful.
It's just looking more and more every day like wealth inequality is the great problem of our time, effectively halting progress beyond a certain point.
> An entire web browser could be written from scratch independently for that kinda cash.
It honestly couldn't be. Not one that is on par with Chromium.
I can't imagine how much Chrome "costs" if you add up all the engineering man-hours that have gone into that browser. I wouldn't be surprised if it exceeded (exceeds?) $3 million a month at times.
Everything from V8 to pretty much full standards compliance (and beyond). Web browseres are an immensely complex beast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker
An entire web browser could be written from scratch independently for that kinda cash.
That's so disappointing that I don't think I can ever look at Mozilla or Firefox the same way again. As a software engineer, I would not work at an organization with such a huge discrepancy in pay. It almost makes me feel better about a lifetime of failure, so I guess I should be grateful.
It's just looking more and more every day like wealth inequality is the great problem of our time, effectively halting progress beyond a certain point.