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Firefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL (with Google's help) (github.com)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Google created the original reference implementation, libjxl. It's not stupid that they would prefer a Rust rewrite be created by the same team.

https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl