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Fortunately, zstd seems to be in active development: https://github.com/facebook/zstd https://github.com/facebook/zstd As far as I can tell, most of zstd's dev
by loudmax 4y ago
Fortunately, zstd seems to be in active development: https://github.com/facebook/zstd https://github.com/facebook/zstd
As far as I can tell, most of zstd's development is still by Facebook employees, though not all of it. I tend to think zstd has enough traction that development would continue even if FB were to abandon the project.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 4y agoThis is probably a naive take, but I think of compression software as something that can be “done”. Unlikely to be a lot of code churn required for such a project to be relevant for a very long time.
- unmole 4y agoExcept for the fact that zstd has seen steady development and improved performance.
- still_grokking 4y agoRegarding zstd: I've just discovered bzip3. https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3 https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3
- Agingcoder 4y agoI think zstd is originally not a Facebook project. https://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2015/01/zstd-stronger-compression-algorithm.html?m=1 https://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2015/01/zstd-stronger-c... I believe Yann Collet, author of lz4, eventually went on to work for Facebook and finished it there.
- Agingcoder 4y agohttps://www.wired.com/2016/08/facebook-just-proved-isnt-hooli-silicon-valley/ https://www.wired.com/2016/08/facebook-just-proved-isnt-hool... He was hired by Facebook during the 2015 summer, but the zstd announcement is dated jan 2015.
- chaxor 4y agoIt's a part of the Linux kernel now, so I think it's pretty safe