alt Hacker News> If people truly wanted memory safe encoders/decoders
Really? How many codecs have your neighbors contributed money for the development of, just curious.
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Telaneo • yesterday at 7:44 PM
Given Netflix's involvement with SV1-AV1, (not even that) indirectly, at least 1.
I think these conversations are directed by the parties funding the efforts. Example: "we (large company) want a fast AV2 decoder" -> they pay a specialized team to do it -> this team works in C for the most part, so it is done in C. If there were financial incentives to do it in Rust, they'd pay more for a Rust decoder.