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		bluejekyll on Nov 28, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox You can still give Apple credit for having sponsored a significant investment into LLVM. Without them, it might not have taken off the way it has.

distances on Nov 28, 2017 [–]

Indeed. Apple often also gets flak for taking KHTML and running with it, but footing the bill for WebKit development was a good thing for the Internet in general.

sjwright on Nov 29, 2017 | [–]

Not giving Apple credit for LLVM or Webkit is akin to not giving Google credit for Android or Chrome.

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