Actually, it is only 100,000 times bigger (not 1M) In fact: 1.3 * 10^7 / 1.27 * 10^2 is about 10^5, i.e. 100K times bigger.

Mozilla getting into projects that bring money in-house is the way to go: more money, more investments, more market share, that bring more money, etc

The idea that we need General AI for it to take over many of the jobs that today are done by people is wrong. In fact the root of the issue is that an AI needs to be only good enough and only one task, that happens to be the one a human worker is paid to perform.

Secrets and Lies by Mike Leigh https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0... The cast and the writer/director spent 6 months living together and refining the story and the characters' backstories, and it shows: it is like any other movie looks amateurish in comparison. The scene in the tea room is worth the price of the ticket.

Also, the C language is the De Facto Lingua Franca of the software world, i.e. all other languages have means to call a C function, or be callable from a C function.

The C language has a stable ABI, and it is the only mainstream language that can make such a claim.