Or why software patents can get in the way... You can work around them somehow, but that quickly leads to shipping binaries you can't properly check.

Interesting reasons to let go of Rust, some spaces indeed can have a safety vs performance tradeoff which would justify using good old C.

Interesting benchmark, this seems to point toward AVIF and JPEG-XL as two great codecs for pictures.

Nice higher level view of how a codec like H.264 works. Not really dive in the intricate details specific to H.264 though.