alt Hacker News> Windows users should use 7-Zip
Please no - no native zstd support. NanaZip is the better option (it's a different build of 7-zip) and it's available at windows store.
> Better compression format, unpacks more kinds of archives
winrar has supported zstd for 5 years[0]
In short - Everyone should be using zstd, and 7-zip does not support it.
[0]: https://www.win-rar.com/singlenewsview.html?&L=0&tx_ttnews%5...
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ndriscoll • yesterday at 1:52 PM
zstd is a good default for e.g. filesystem compression, but if you're making an archive file, presumably you're looking for higher compression and LZMA would be a better fit.
pixl97 • yesterday at 3:07 PM
>> Windows users should use 7-Zip
7z is now built into W11 right click so that or zip is what will be used by default anyway.
Yeah, zstd is awesome. I built a webapp that uses it via wasm and the decompression speed is incredible, so much so that I store everything in zstd and decompress it on the app load. My wasm binary also does advanced search and tag insertion and stuff in addition to zstd but it's only 38kb. I wish zstd was supported natively by web browsers. The 8kb implementation of zstd is only half as slow as wasm, so even that is still viable.