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		speps 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chromium Has Merged JpegXL It was an issue with the main JPEGXL library being unmaintained and possibly open for security flaws. Some people got together and wrote a new one in Rust which then became an acceptable choice for a secure browser.

a-french-anon 15 days ago | [–]

Unmaintained? You must be mistaken, libjxl was getting a healthy stream of commits.

The issue was the use of C++ instead of Rust or WUFFS (that Chromium uses for a lot of formats).

spider-mario 15 days ago | [–]

It’s largely the same people.

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