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Firefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL (with Google's help) (github.com)

submitted 10 months ago by that_leaflet@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It's sad to see how Mozilla needs Google even for this.

I hate that Google seems to have a finger in absolutely everything. Why? Because their end goal is a web where you need to identity yourself to them.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 21 points 10 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

[–] dan@upvote.au 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's likely that Google offered, and Mozilla doesn't have a reason to say no. Google Research do this for a bunch of open source projects.

Chrome needs a JPEG-XL decoder too, so I'd guess they're going to share the code across both Chrome and Firefox.