This format has gained a lot of traction in several fields despite being relatively new (just a few years old) because
Update: I am not familiar with the architecture gdk-pixbuf, but it seems that it might already support Qoi. If it does, how long might it take until the functionality reaches Pinta? https://github.com/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf/blob/master/gdk-pixbuf/io-glycin-qoi.c
This format has gained a lot of traction in several fields despite being relatively new (just a few years old) because
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QOI_(image_format)
https://qoiformat.org/
Update: I am not familiar with the architecture gdk-pixbuf, but it seems that it might already support Qoi. If it does, how long might it take until the functionality reaches Pinta? https://github.com/GNOME/gdk-pixbuf/blob/master/gdk-pixbuf/io-glycin-qoi.c