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by MatthiasPortzel 999 days ago
> Chrome doesn't yet support a memory safe language

In addition to the safety features you mentioned, Chrome supports Wuffs, a memory safe programming language that supports runtime correctness checks, designed for writing parsers for untrusted files. I don’t think it existed at the start of the webp project either, but that’s what I would expect the webp parser to be written in, over Rust or a garbage collected language.

https://github.com/google/wuffs

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Ahh cool! I was unaware of Wuffs. Thanks for sharing!