Announcing Zstandard in Rust

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• ikawe 7 hours ago
  It’d be nice if they at least mentioned the existing pure rust implementation.

  https://github.com/KillingSpark/zstd-rs

  And better yet if they compared it explicitly in their “why” section. As it is, I’m left guessing.

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  • merlincorey 7 hours ago
    The "Why" section exclusively opens with a reference to zstd-rs:

    > Why though?

    > Using zstd in Rust is already supported via the zstd crate, so why bother with a whole new implementation?

    Separately, I'd say their end goal seems to be replacing the C library dependency in Rust's zstd-rs:

    > We have our own fork of the zstd that uses libzstd-rs-sys instead of the C library. We'd like to upstream this at some point.

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    • soulbadguy 6 hours ago
      They seems to be referering to https://github.com/gyscos/zstd-rs which looks like a wrapper around the C library. https://github.com/KillingSpark/zstd-rs. is a pure rust implementation