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Re:Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened by 12_throw_away on Monday November 24, 2025 @02:00PM (#46037751)
> 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

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Re:Chrome Jpegxl Issue Reopened by lonjil on Monday November 24, 2025 @02:38PM (#46038280)
WUFFS only works for very simple codecs. Basically useless for anything complex enough that memory bugs would be common.
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