Comment by QuantumNomad_

> The FFMPEG folks should try porting the whole codebase to Rust too.

They don’t seem convinced that that would be a meaningful use of time for them. (2025)

https://itsfoss.com/news/ffmpeg-swipe-at-rust/

And 6 months ago someone did a little experiment using Claude to rewrite FFmpeg in Rust. It was by the own description by the person that had the AI do it, significantly slower than FFmpeg even when incorporating assembly code from FFmpeg.

https://github.com/sharifhsn/wedeo

Maybe with further advancements it is now possible to get a better result, or soon.

But if you are going to copy their assembly code into the Rust protect how do you definitively prove that no memory unsafe operations are happening in those parts? Seems to me that either the whole thing should be safe Rust, if the point of the rewrite is memory safety.