This is absolutely ridiculous. It should be migrated to C#.
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2026
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Scratch should be the choice, obviously. It will be so much easier to maintain! Think of all of the new contributors!
3 billion
devices run Java
3 billion devices have been running java for past 20 years.
Proof of stability!
Most of them have not loaded the kvm just yet, any minute now ...
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Except next to pools, no one should run there
Unless you have scissors. That cancels it out.
J2EE ffmpeg for flip phones
You mean JavaScript so that it does the same thing each time
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I hope they’re doing it with AI for faster development. Now that Claude is open source, there’s no excuse to refuse progress anymore!
Only Claude's frontend leaked, not the models
To which Anthropic answered by open sourcing the whole under AGPL. Didn't you see the news?
April 1?
Yeah! April number one!
I don't want AGPL. I will use claude to rewrite it and license it MIT since that's peachy and legal now.
You had me for a second
That's unironically what ladybird (browser engine) did
Ew another reason to ignore it and wait for Servo instead
Why the ladybird hate?
Besides the fact that they are vibe coding?
Just make a rust fork of ffmpeg, it can be ffmpreg.
that's a thing https://github.com/yazaldefilimone/ffmpreg
The readme is far too serious for such a silly name
While you're right, this holds true for e.g. 'gimp' and 'git' too.
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Yes officer, this one right here.
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What did Rust do to FFmpeg to make them so mad lol
I guess not rust itself, but people telling them to switch to rust over and over again. They use a lot of assembly magic to get good performance, they aren't in C land.
You can embed Assembly in Rust. A lot of low-level Rust projects embed Assembly.
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Was jokingly going to suggest a WASM version. But then: https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm
I'm only asking this half jokingly, what the fuck?
WASM is great :) unironically
everything should switch to wasm. i'm not saying this because of arbitrarily. it's just very well thought-through. wasm automatically provides portability, sandboxing, and integration with other languages.
like, one of the things i still don't understand is why we don't have automatic sandboxing for every application. like, when i download and run a new game from steam, why isn't it automatically put in a sandbox? Why does it have full read/write access to my entire disk? i don't like that at all...
Converting everything to wasm would solve that automatically, and very easily on top of that.
Makes it portable across architectures while also providing sandboxing.
The fedi software I use (GoToSocial) runs both ffmpeg (Sorry, ffmpreg) and sqlite through WASM, also makes it easier to integrate it with Go code apparently.
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Rust should switch to ffmpeg!
Further proof that this is the shittiest holiday only celebrated by the most insufferable.
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Took me like 5 second after reading this to understand that it's April 1st.
The reason I don't use C, because I don't hate my life.
Huh, I guess the person who runs FFmpeg's Xitter account must live in western Europe (UTC+1:00).
Ha
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