rusty_gif

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Rust alternative to giflib, ending GIF C decoder vulnerabilities

rusty_gif is the Remade with Rust pin for this lane: keep the product shape, change the safety floor, and stop shipping the old C or cloud default by accident.

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Instant benefit

'Cost should scale with color diversity, not resolution.' A pure-Rust GIF decoder + encoder whose quantizer routes by a color census: exact palette, frequency-weighted k-means, or budget-sampled NeuQuant, chosen per frame. Measured against FFmpeg 8.1.2's palettegen/paletteuse best path:.

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Deploy with GitHub access

1. Confirm you can open https://github.com/Remade-With-Rust/rusty_gif.
2. Add the crate to your project (crates.io when published, otherwise git):

   cargo add rusty_gif

   Git pin: cargo add --git https://github.com/Remade-With-Rust/rusty_gif.git

3. Prove the pin with cargo check before the next agent prompt can swap it for a C or cloud default.
4. Read the builder field note for composition: /learn/rusty-gif/.