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Comment by mr_mitm

2 days ago

My understanding is that ffmpeg is probably incredibly close to the metal, with tons of assembler mixed in. I imagine doing the same in Rust would include lots of `unsafe` blocks and a similar amount of assembly, so it wouldn't change much in terms of security. Or am I wrong?

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RossBencina  2 days ago

Wuffs usually comes up in this context: https://github.com/google/wuffs

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