Rewrite Rust components in C (yes, seriously.)

(#996) Feature Declined meta performance

7mo agoby RexSystem edited originally by @zleepyzeezee on GitHub

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RexSystem 1 vote 7mo ago originally by @oax90 on GitHub 1 reply

Right now in the refactor branch Rust is used only in the client for a simple purpose. Is there really a need to keep dependency on Rust for that? I rather keep it full TS or use Go or C.

pub use animation::is_animated_image;
pub use apng::crop_and_rotate_apng;
pub use gateway::decompress_zstd_frame;
pub use gif::crop_and_rotate_gif;
pub use static_image::crop_and_rotate_image;

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RexSystem 1 vote 7mo ago originally by @Speykious on GitHub

Image decoding and processing is a quite resource-intensive task, so it makes sense to dedicate that to a lower level language. Given that it all needs to run on the browser, it has to be compiled in WASM, and Rust is kind of the best tool for that job. C could also do that job, just not as well.

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