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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 wit
by merlincorey 4mo 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.
- soulbadguy 4mo agoThey seems to be referering to https://github.com/gyscos/zstd-rs https://github.com/gyscos/zstd-rs which looks like a wrapper around the C library. https://github.com/KillingSpark/zstd-rs https://github.com/KillingSpark/zstd-rs. is a pure rust implementation