P: Camera Raw/Lightroom Classic/Lightroom Ecosystem: Support for WebP

Safari won't be in any rush to support it because Apple standardised on the HEIC/HEIF format (HEVC-based).  Better compression and better quality.  WebP (and WebM) are a little long in the tooth by comparision (based on VP8), and its successors VP9 and AV1 are failing to live up to their promise of being unencumbered of patent issues (see patent troll Sisvel).  Looks like Apple made a good choice, or at least I'm more than happy with it.

You shouldn't have to pay for this because ImageMagick can do this for free.

I've successfully managed to get webp working on my site and I'm told that Google give these images preference, add that to speed improvement and you have significant SEO. For that reason alone webp will be a success so Lightroom needs to adapt to this a little faster than it is. I've had to create some script to check the browser and upload both JPG and WepP to account for the browsers that don't cover it (Safari would you believe!!!): Here's the gallery... https://charlessturge.com/corporate-photographer-london let me know if you'd like the html script and I'll post it. 

Would love to see WEBP added in Lightroom and Bridge! 

When will we get support for webp on Lightroom CC?

I have a Shopify e-commerce website where customers upload their photos.  I then save them on my Mac and import them into LR.  Recently, Shopify started converting all those files to webp.  Now, even though I use LR, the premier, industry-standard, I cannot open my customer's photos.  Webp is open source and has been around for many years so it doesn't make sense that Adobe hasn't added webp support.  I had to buy a converter app to continue my business because Adobe has let me down.

Don't export to JPEG if you're going to process them again. Intermediate files should always be lossless, so PNG, TIFF (with encoding that isn't JPEG), or DNG will do.

Agree -- this thread started 2 years ago and WebP is gaining ground. I'd appreciate Adobe helping it (me) out. 

This definitely should be adopted by now and much easier to manage WebP format.

By the end of the year every major web browser will be supporting (or have plans for supporting) the WebP format. The format is completely open source, so I am not sure why Photoshop is so far behind the curve on this. Please add native support in Photoshop.  The plugin is a crude work-around for what should be built-in to PS.