The project page comes across as vaporware or even a scam. The “Why Rust?” section in particular reads like propaganda, almost as if it were written by someone with no real understanding of the subject, just parroting bot-generated Hacker News comments.
FFmpeg’s strength comes from years of work: highly optimized hand-written assembly, and excellent implementations of complex algorithms developed by real codec experts.
If the goal is to meaningfully improve the ecosystem, funding additional fuzzing efforts and supporting actual codec experts to contribute code would be far more valuable.
Like some others here, it took me a while to realize this was a joke until I navigated to their homepage and read about us. I knew I could be slow sometimes, but damn.
FFmpeg processes billions of video frames daily across the internet's critical infrastructure. Yet it remains written in C - a language from 1972 that treats memory safety as optional, undefined behavior as acceptable, and buffer overflows as your problem.
Every frame processed by FFmpeg's C codebase is a roll of the dice.
Jesus, has Rust "advocacy" got to this point now? Tabloid-style scare tactics? Fuck off with this shit.
Right? It should be a no-brainer for this amount of money and this organisation looks to have a lot of experience with type-safe languages, I trust them.
fittyscan@reddit
The project page comes across as vaporware or even a scam. The “Why Rust?” section in particular reads like propaganda, almost as if it were written by someone with no real understanding of the subject, just parroting bot-generated Hacker News comments.
FFmpeg’s strength comes from years of work: highly optimized hand-written assembly, and excellent implementations of complex algorithms developed by real codec experts.
If the goal is to meaningfully improve the ecosystem, funding additional fuzzing efforts and supporting actual codec experts to contribute code would be far more valuable.
BlueGoliath@reddit
Yeah but then it wouldn't be written in Rust.
SereneCalathea@reddit
Like some others here, it took me a while to realize this was a joke until I navigated to their homepage and read about us. I knew I could be slow sometimes, but damn.
hinckley@reddit
Jesus, has Rust "advocacy" got to this point now? Tabloid-style scare tactics? Fuck off with this shit.
FuzzyReturn3713@reddit
Isn't $300k a small price to pay for not having to worry about memory safety ever again?
hinckley@reddit
Why pay $300k when for a monthly subscription we can have Grok vibe code an implementation beyond human comprehension? All hail Grok.
FuzzyReturn3713@reddit
I'd rather fund marginalised rust developers tbh.
hinckley@reddit
Not me. I'd rather fund Elon Musk another $1tn. He's worth every penny and more. Other oligarchs can't compare.
StinkiePhish@reddit
Google should be paying this. $300k is so little money for the benefit they would receive.
FuzzyReturn3713@reddit
Right? It should be a no-brainer for this amount of money and this organisation looks to have a lot of experience with type-safe languages, I trust them.
krapht@reddit
I don't really believe in this, compared to funding more fuzzing and static analysis infrastructure. That seems way more feasible.
Perhaps they could also work on accepting rust into ffmpeg for new codecs instead of dumping the whole library.
FuzzyReturn3713@reddit
Beautiful initiative, tried to donate but it looks like there's some sort of a problem right now? Will try again later.