Out of curiosity, why? Zstd performs as well as it does because of the enormous effort that has been invested into it. That necessarily brings complexity. We d

Out of curiosity, why? Zstd performs as well as it does because of the enormous effort that has been invested into it. That necessarily brings complexity. We do actually have a simple “educational” decoder implementation [0], but I wouldn’t recommend its use in production. And then there are two re-implementations in Java [1] and Go [2]. [0] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/tree/dev/doc/educational_decoder https://github.com/facebook/zstd/tree/dev/doc/educational_de... [1] https://github.com/airlift/aircompressor/tree/master/src/main/java/io/airlift/compress/zstd https://github.com/airlift/aircompressor/tree/master/src/mai... [2] https://github.com/klauspost/compress/tree/master/zstd#zstd https://github.com/klauspost/compress/tree/master/zstd#zstd