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by mrtksn 990 days ago
>None of those are suitable options for an image decoding library on the range of WebP supported platforms.

What makes these unusable for this task?

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They need a large runtime and are slow to start up.
Is that true for all memory safe languages? Why?
> Is that true for all memory safe languages?

No. That is true for the list upthread (well, if you consider runtimes measuring a couple of MB "large", it's reasonable but quite arguable). It doesn't have much correlation with any feature.