6/2/2026 at 1:13:25 AM
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.
by ikawe
6/2/2026 at 1:33:38 AM
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.
by merlincorey