[SoothingSorbet]

I don't know if Google has changed their position, but Mozilla is willing to accept a memory-safe (read: Rust) JXL decoder [1].

If it becomes used in Firefox, maybe there's a chance that Google would see the benefit in picking it up?

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064

[GoblinSlayer]

>100,000 lines of multithreaded C++

>potentially introduce memory safety vulnerabilities across the myriad of applications that would eventually need to support it

Right, new code, new vulnerabilities.