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		12_throw_away 19 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened > performant and memory safe decoder (in Rust?). Isn't this exactly the case that wuffs [1] is built for? I had the vague (and, looking into it now, probably incorrect) impression that Google was going to start building all their decoders with that. [1] https://github.com/google/wuffs

lonjil 19 days ago [–]

WUFFS only works for very simple codecs. Basically useless for anything complex enough that memory bugs would be common.

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