alt Hacker NewsI'm pretty new to choosing compression libraries - I started with zlib and was delighted at how much faster and smaller zstd made things.
Since we kind of need a default "Need to compress something? Use this!" setting - would you prefer zlib over zstd, or something else for that role?
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handsome_jack_ • yesterday at 6:35 PM
zstd or lz4
The only reason to pick anything but zstd is that platform support might be better.
If your platform/sdk/browser/standard-library comes with zlib/gzip/.. then it's often easier to just pick that.
No new dependencies is always a win. App size. Security, etc.
Otherwise, if zstd is easy to add, IMO I would always prefer, zstd, lz4 or brotli.