[ekunazanu]

> To address this concern, the team at Google has agreed to apply their subject matter expertise to build a safe, performant, compact, and compatible JPEG-XL decoder in Rust, and integrate this decoder into Firefox.

I was not aware of this. Also judging by this and the sibling comments, it looks like the momentum didn't die despite Google's apathy. Hopefully the fact that their own team is now developing the rust port, as well as the growing support in other platforms, is enough to make Google reconsider its choices.

[kllrnohj]

> it looks like the momentum didn't die despite Google's apathy.

Google is a founding organization of jpeg-xl and are a core part of the team. Chromium punted it, but Google as an organization hasn't exactly since they haven't pulled out of jpegxl itself nor removed their engineers from it.

Big companies are big, they do conflicting things from time to time. Or often.

[jeffbee]

I am still surprised that WUFFS isn't being used to address safety concerns with the JPEG-XL reference library.

[OneDeuxTriSeiGo]

IMHO it's because the WUFFS code for just vanilla JPEGs is in the most polite terms "jaw droppingly horrific" and JPEG-XL is an order of magnitude more complex.