It should certainly lower the bar of adopting a new codec if the implementation is in a memory-safe language. Even so, it is more code, and somewhat more risk.

It should certainly lower the bar of adopting a new codec if the implementation is in a memory-safe language. Even so, it is more code, and somewhat more risk. Lack of safety elsewhere might end up using code that is otherwise safe in order to build an exploit (by sending it something invalid that breaks an invariant, or building gadgets out of it, etc.).