stagnation

Not a huge fan of C#, but he couldn't have picked a worse example for language stagnation.

Yes, it's occasionally painful, but it's less painful than stagnation.

* The gap between an hourly worker's wages in the US versus China is shrinking, due to Chinese labor inflation and US collar wage stagnation.

On one hand you equate youth with innovation, age with stagnation, and on the other you posit that overworking youth for below market wages is simply a cost of doing business.

From the long term perspective, however, monocultures inevitably lead to stagnation.

It takes a very particular type of market, a founder who really wants a lifestyle company, or a company that is wildly profitable to avoid stagnation.

Even companies that stay privately held and turn a profit year over year end up in many ways being a lifestyle company; Often resulting in stagnation and then slowly erode from the inside.

What you said is only true if by "a lot of Rust's benefits" you mean "basically none of its benefits".It sounds like you are unhappy with some of the user interface decisions in Firefox and are trying to use this story as a way to spin this out into some sort of narrative of Mozilla's decline and stagnation.

When you recall their once-titanic power, their vicious business culture, their decade-long seizure and stagnation of the entire web, the way they openly eat their own with gusto, and the incalculable amounts of money and effort thrown into the boundless swamps of their fetid platforms, you realize that watching them tumble and smash on the rocks below is never, ever, ever going to get old.