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Re: by loudmax on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @03:49PM (#33614819)
Fortunately, zstd seems to be in active development: 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.

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Re: by 0cf8612b2e1e on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @04:04PM (#33614981)
This 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.
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Re: by unmole on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @09:41PM (#33618159)
Except for the fact that zstd has seen steady development and improved performance.
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Re: by still_grokking on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @04:09PM (#33615048)
Regarding zstd: I've just discovered bzip3.

https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3

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Re: by Agingcoder on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @05:32PM (#33616074)
I think zstd is originally not a Facebook project. 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.

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Re: by Agingcoder on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @05:37PM (#33616153)
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.
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Re: by chaxor on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @07:59PM (#33617488)
It's a part of the Linux kernel now, so I think it's pretty safe
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