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doublerabbit • yesterday at 11:34 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

Because these applications were created long before Rust existed.

There is a cost to conversion.


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_flux • yesterday at 4:58 PM

Rust-Brotli (by Dropbox) is actually a drop-in replacement for the Brotli C lib: https://github.com/dropbox/rust-brotli#:~:text=rust-brotli%2...

Dropbox switched to it a decade ago, so it's probably quite product-ready.

Gigachad • yesterday at 11:36 AM

Brotil was actually created post rust, but before rust took off.

anthk • yesterday at 7:25 PM

Check Librsvg, or php-rust. Or tons of gtk4-rs software doing it just fine.

davedx • yesterday at 11:41 AM

It's not even an application it's a compression library