7 engineers on Hacker News describe using ImageMagick first-hand: 0 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We also had a few suprises with imagemagick causing 100% CPU load”
regret · production · mickeyben · 2012-09-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have a Java application that relies on ImageMagick, which seems to use libheif for AVIF rather than libavif”
neutral · production · aorth · 2026-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the only change was the command line arguments passed to imagemagick”
neutral · production · daxfohl · 2018-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after using pre-processed versions using carrierwave / ImageMagick / cloudfront”
neutral · production · gingerlime · 2015-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“which is strange because we use imagemagick, but whatever.”
neutral · production · Jgrubb · 2013-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“plenty of video editing/conversion command line tools like imagemagick and ffmpeg.”
neutral · personal · BadassFractal · 2013-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Written in Ruby, based on FFmpeg + ImageMagick, handles both video, audio and photos”
neutral · production · lobster_johnson · 2011-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?