@[email protected] in curl’s case we only offer it via an API but that also means we cannot very easily take it away without risking hurting a few users… Ie we would need to bump SONAME.

@[email protected] right, presumably not widely used but we can’t really tell…

@freddy you’re reading too much into my words. I’m just amazed by how large the existing JPEG XL decoder is.

And I don’t think I am alone.

@freddy … and that happens to be the one Firefox uses…

@Di4na possibly: I believe Rust is generally a good thing for most things, but I believe the Rust ecosystem with cargo and bazillions of always-updatiing tiny dependencies risk adding friction and at least complicates the equation quite a lot

@[email protected] they are indeed quite different beasts in the insides. #curl is not C++ spaghetti using a million threads for example. 😁

@[email protected] I feel I have at least two!