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This is a valid argument, but which of the contenders are using Rust or similar security minded languages?

WebP appears to be written in C++, perhaps because underlying video codec is also written in C++…

We wrote WebP in C -- in the creative phase of codec and format development I kept it in C++, the feasibility proto was initially launched in C++ (perhaps 0.2 version of the lossless coding, late 2011), but I ported it to C a few months after that and handed it over to the WebP production team (early 2012) who kept making improvements like streaming decoding

My bad, I glanced at “compiling” page and assumed c++ for some reason.

[0] https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/compiling

There is a Rust WebP decoder in image-rs [1], presumably independently written from the specification.

[1] https://github.com/image-rs/image/tree/master/src/codecs/web...

FTR that decoder does not support colors, so for most uses it is not ready yet: https://github.com/image-rs/image/pull/952

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