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by al2o3cr 1348 days ago
Nitpick - chai2010/webp avoids "binding to external code" by incorporating the entire libwebp distribution in "internal/libwebp-1.0.2" and compiling it.

OTOH, folks have been saying "what if we rewrote the encoder in plain Go (no C)" since 2016 and it doesn't appear to have happened:

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/gZ-PCUGw7Rk/m/lrBF...