Speed matters. According to the authors of this software "Highly optimized Turbo Decoder available in Intel SSE4.1/AVX (+100 Mbps) and standard C (+25 Mbps)".

Speed matters. According to the authors of this software "Highly optimized Turbo Decoder available in Intel SSE4.1/AVX (+100 Mbps) and standard C (+25 Mbps)". Also, a lot of alternatives are just not there. Rust is not mature; today it doesn't "fully" support SIMD. Go requires a runtime, does not support SIMD, and has a penalty for calling C code.