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What about implementations? libpng seems pretty dead, 1.7 has been in development forever but 1.6 is still considered the stable version. Is there a current "ca
by hrydgard 1y ago
What about implementations? libpng seems pretty dead, 1.7 has been in development forever but 1.6 is still considered the stable version. Is there a current "canonical" png C/C++ library?
- vanderZwan 1y agoI mean, if the spec has been stable for two decades then maybe there just hasn't been much to fix? Especially since PNG is a relatively simple image format.
- illiac786 1y agoSeems that logic does not apply to jpeg though.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- ethan_smith 1y agoFor modern C/C++ PNG implementations, consider lodepng (header-only), stb_image/stb_image_write (single-file), or libspng (active fork focused on performance and security) as more actively maintained alternatives to libpng.
- ProgramMax 1y agolibpng updates are either already landed or nearly landed.