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?