FFmpeg: "Rust Is so Good that You Can Be Paid $20,000 to Make It as Fast as the C", the Multimedia Framework Writes in C Reacts with Sarcasm to an Initiative of Prossimo

On May 15, 2025, FFmpeg's official Twitter account published a sharp message against Rust, calling it "so good that you can be paid $20,000 to make it as fast as C." This comment was aimed at Prossimo's recent initiative, which offered a $20,000 bonus to anyone who would succeed in rendering its AV1, rav1d decoder, as fast as dav1d, a C implementation widely recognized for its speed. This statement revived the debate on compromises between Franc…