[-] bagder@mastodon.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

@lukasa@hachyderm.io in curl's case we only offer it via an API but that also means we cannot very easily take it away without risking hurting a few users... Ie we would need to bump SONAME.

[-] bagder@mastodon.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

@icing@chaos.social right, presumably not widely used but we can't really tell...

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submitted 2 weeks ago by bagder@mastodon.social to c/firefox@fedia.io

#Firefox joins the other browsers and disables HTTP/2 server push.

libcurl still supports it!

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/vU9hJg343U8/m/4cZsHz7TAQAJ?pli=1

[-] bagder@mastodon.social 0 points 2 weeks ago

@freddy you're reading too much into my words. I'm just amazed by how large the existing JPEG XL decoder is.

And I don't think I am alone.

[-] bagder@mastodon.social 0 points 2 weeks ago

@freddy ... and that happens to be the one Firefox uses...

[-] bagder@mastodon.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

@Di4na possibly: I believe Rust is generally a good thing for most things, but I believe the Rust ecosystem with cargo and bazillions of always-updatiing tiny dependencies risk adding friction and at least complicates the equation quite a lot

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submitted 2 weeks ago by bagder@mastodon.social to c/firefox@fedia.io

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

[-] bagder@mastodon.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

@leeloo@techhub.social they are indeed quite different beasts in the insides. #curl is not C++ spaghetti using a million threads for example. ๐Ÿ˜

[-] bagder@mastodon.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

@icing@chaos.social I feel I have at least two!

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submitted 2 weeks ago by bagder@mastodon.social to c/firefox@fedia.io

I promise, just because #curl and #Firefox often behave similarly, it is almost never because I once worked in the Firefox networking team. ๐Ÿค 

bagder

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