I don’t think it’s unfounded. Media codecs have been one of the top sources for serious vulnerabilities. The code is incredibly complex, and takes complex input from untrusted sources.

Decoders are one of the best places for rust because they are both performance critical and security critical.

JPEG-XL couldn’t get off the ground until they recreated the decoder in Rust since none of the browsers wanted to touch it. And the apps that did utilise the C based libjxl ended up hit with vulnerabilities in it.

you're falling for and/or playing along with astroturfing, that's what's tedious

can't people coping about rust come up with something fresh? always the same dance:

- fake annoyance about <thing> not being written in rust (bonus points if nonsensical, like here)

- if merely insinuated, fake question about what do they mean exactly

- fake surprise about omg why are people like this, the rust community is so bad, wah wah wah

yawn

oh yeah, let's not forget the other classic:

- the rust community is so dumb for thinking <shit they don't think made up for an easy beatdown>

- yeah ikr haha so stupid

every fucking rust thread is like this, and it's unreadable. by intention of course, obviously.

but it's ai / corporations / the government ruining the internet guys! totally...