The current JPEG XL decoder in #Firefox apparently consists more than 100,000 lines of multi-threaded C++
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@bagder@mastodon.social This is my biggest worry too: they essentially copied the NPM package management model and practices. Good for short term productivity, but I worry that it causes significant long-term maintainability problems.
And everything is version 0.x, in part due to technical limitations of Cargo: moving out of 0.x is a breaking change, so if you have users on 0.x (which Cargo encourages by treating 0.x specially) moving out of 0.x breaks them.