Mozilla Is Interested In A Rust JPEG-XL Decoder For Firefox & Google Might Develop It: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Interest-JPEG-XL-Rust
God fucking damn it! Can we have images without Google involvement already? 🤬
@romin
Well, Firefox is in Rust for the most part, so having image codec also in Rust kinda makes sense! 🤷
And unlike Go, Rust has turned into a tool that actually works not only on a subset of Google approved platforms, which are macOS with Apple Silicagel, Windows x64 and Linux x86_64 and AArch64.
@thatbrickster
Yes, good point! I can't tell for certain which percentage for it is in Rust — haven't built it in quite a while as I stopped updating it 😂
But it always seemed to me that more and more components get re-implemented in Rust with time — this is the general direction it's heading, so having JPEG XL in Rust would be natural even from the perspective of reducing maintenance "costs" — that was my point.
@romin
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