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by felixr 1838 days ago
Not a comparison to HVIF, but some reasoning on why not just use HVIF:

  The Haiku Vector Icon Format is pretty close. Unfortunately, I didn't
  find a written specification, only a single C implementation, tightly
  coupled, as far as I could tell, to the Haiku operating system. Also,
  https://www.haiku-os.org/articles/2009-09-14_why_haiku_vector_icons_are_so_small
  says that "you wouldn't really want to use HVIF to store generic
  vector graphics".
From 2016 post introducing IconVG https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/LciLeI5p8k8/m/vSid...: