I've worked with ffmpeg for literally a decade and I've never found them particularly toxic.

What I have found that they (as many others who do great work) have very little tolerance of random junior language fanboys criticizing their decades of work without even understanding what they're talking about and constantly throwing out silly rewrite ideas.

You’re right; this happens a lot.

The SQlite folks, half of Linux, and other maintainers have encountered the same kind of zealotry. Dealing with language supremacism is annoying and I don’t blame ffmpeg for venting.

In fact, I’d even say that twitter thread is informative, because it demonstrates out how big tech fund their own pet projects over the actual maintainers.

I'm not saying that they don't do great work, but that twitter thread (https://x.com/ffmpeg/status/1924137645988356437) is pretty obnoxious and reads like they are upset they didn't get funding. It's entirely possible that they are just difficult to work with and funders _don't_ want to fund them.

"Because substantial amounts of human and financial resources go into these rust ports that are inferior to the originals. Orders of magnitude more resources than the originals which remain extremely understaffed/underfunded." -- https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1924149949949775980

"... And we get this instead: <xz backdoor subtweet>" -- https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1924153020352225790

"They [rust ports] are superior in the same way Esperanto is also superior to English." -- https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1924154854051557494

It's kind of sad to see that snarky attitude. Clearly the corporate sponsors _want_ a more secure decoder. Maybe they should try and work _with_ the system instead of wasting energy on sarcasm on Twitter?