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JPEG XL is Dead. Long Live JPEG XL (programming.dev)
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[–] eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws 80 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

"we would welcome contributions to integrate a performant and memory-safe JPEG XL decoder in Chromium. In order to enable it by default in Chromium we would need a commitment to long-term maintenance."

yeah

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I.e. the existing implementation is not usable because it's not written in rust

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Or would they demand it in Go? Or have they abandoned that?

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 15 hours ago

That might work but didn't think go was

  • as safe as rust
  • built for CPU intensive operations (aside from potentially concurrent tasks)