Top 4 Go image-compression Projects

go-avif

2 308 0.0 Go

:art: Go AVIF library
transformimgs

4 184 7.6 Go

Open source image CDN.

Project mention: Image Transformation API "transformimgs" added support for JPEG XL | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-15

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imagecompression

1 9 0.0 Go

Simple image compression using SVD
wasmimg

1 2 5.0 Go

Cram more pixels into bytes - anywhere

Project mention: Wazero: Zero dependency WebAssembly runtime written in Go | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-01

Using WASM for things requiring low IO and high compute that are traditionally written in C/C++ makes a lot of sense to me. Image codecs are an example and native implementations for things like JPEG encoders are hard to come by. So, I used wazero to implement a few image codecs in Go^1. Codecs were compiled to WASM, and wazero works great for running them (albeit with overhead).
For this use case, wazero appears to be the cleanest solution as it's the only runtime that doesn't need CGo. The biggest appeal to me embedding WASM in Go is avoiding CGo to allow cross compilation. If my dependency is using CGo anyway, I might as well as link against a C library. I think native WASM runtimes like wazero are currently the best options for porting code language-agnostically.
^1: https://github.com/yklcs/wasmimg

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).