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> Similarly, if you go looking for compression support in Rust, there's none in the standard library. I have no idea why that is considered a criticism. Compr
by lamontcg 3y ago
> Similarly, if you go looking for compression support in Rust, there's none in the standard library.
I have no idea why that is considered a criticism.
Compression support is the kind of thing which is going to evolve over time and compression formats will change and performance and APIs of different libraries will get better.
You avoid the problem where the compression library in the std library is the one that experienced programmers tell all the noobs that they should never use.
- aldanor 3y agoI'd replace "similarly" with "fortunately"
- electroly 3y ago> You avoid the problem where the compression library in the std library is the one that experienced programmers tell all the noobs that they should never use. This is not inevitable. In the .NET world we have great compressors in the standard library. Zip and gzip aren't going anywhere. I totally disagree with the idea that we would have been better off without those compressors in the standard library.