The current JPEG XL decoder in #Firefox apparently consists more than 100,000 lines of multi-threaded C++

For just decoding an image format.

Not sure what it says about the format, the implementation and the Internet at large.

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064

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    16 days ago

    @bagder@mastodon.social could isolate the decoder in a WASM runtime and only starting the rewrite if and when the format becomes popular enough :-)