[zspitzer]

One of the biggest barriers against adoption of these newer formats is the lack of pure java implementations for use server side.

The Java wrappers around a native binary are helpful, but for many projects not very useful and this hinders adoption.

https://github.com/haraldk/TwelveMonkeys/issues?q=is%3Aissue...

[grishka]

Using Java code for things that are this performance critical doesn't feel like a good idea. It will work of course, but it will probably GC a lot, and while modern JVMs do JIT, the code they generate can't be as optimal as something that has manual SIMD optimizations.

[lmm]

Using C code is how you get the next cloudbleed. I'm happy to pay a performance cost for the sake of memory safety.

[iomcr]

Fix this easily by abstracting the manipulation of user uploaded files to chroot/serverless.

[lmm]

That doesn't fix the problem. The process can still fix any data that it has access to, which includes other users' confidential uploaded files.

[mbStavola]

Honestly, you'd benefit more from idiomatic bindings rather than a pure Java implementation. There are quite a few high quality Java libraries that wrap C/C++ code but maintain a nearly 1:1 API, which is what ends up making them difficult to work with. OpenCV is a good example of this.

[adityapatadia]

Is JAVA still a thing?