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this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2024
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It's sad to see how Mozilla needs Google even for this.
I hate that Google seems to have a finger in absolutely everything. Why? Because their end goal is a web where you need to identity yourself to them.
Google created the original reference implementation, libjxl. It's not stupid that they would prefer a Rust rewrite be created by the same team.
https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl
It's likely that Google offered, and Mozilla doesn't have a reason to say no. Google Research do this for a bunch of open source projects.
Chrome needs a JPEG-XL decoder too, so I'd guess they're going to share the code across both Chrome and Firefox.