This is absolutely ridiculous. It should be migrated to Java, so it can run everywhere.
3 billion
Devices Run Java
3 billion devices have been running java for past 20 years.
Proof of stability!
You mean JavaScript so that it does the same thing each time
Not exactly the same thing, but…
Was jokingly going to suggest a WASM version. But then: https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm
I hope they’re doing it with AI for faster development. Now that Claude is open source, there’s no excuse to refuse progress anymore!
Only Claude’s frontend leaked, not the models
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What did Rust do to FFmpeg to make them so mad lol
Ah, just realized what day it is
East Coast here, it’s not even midnight for another 4 minutes!
The world doesnt only exist within the US timezone ;)
I don’t understand. I learned in school that America is the only important country in the world.
I guess not rust itself, but people telling them to switch to rust over and over again. They use a lot of assembly magic to get good performance, they aren’t in C land.
You can embed Assembly in Rust. A lot of low-level Rust projects embed Assembly.
Bro, just use Rust, bro.
We get it, Rust can suck your dick… and more!
Just make a rust fork of ffmpeg, it can be ffmpreg.
that’s a thing https://github.com/yazaldefilimone/ffmpreg
FFmpregante!
Yes officer, this one right here.
Everyone knows that Swift is the language of the future!
I don’t know what swift is
It’s Apple’s programming language, kind of intended as a successor to Objective-C.
From what I hear, it’s actually decently designed and has quite a few similarities to Rust. Still not sure, how great it is outside of the Apple ecosystem…
interesting. thanks for explaining. I am not an apple person in any capacity.
Mediocre pop star.
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