I think there’s a stronger form of the argument: image formats are expensive to create and secure, and that should have factored into WebP adoption given its ma

I think there’s a stronger form of the argument: image formats are expensive to create and secure, and that should have factored into WebP adoption given its marginal benefits. The lesson I hope was learned is that nobody should be writing new parsers in an unsafe language. WebP is old enough that it was defensible at the time but everyone should have a “no new C/C++” policy for internet-facing code.