[axiolite]

> So you can just use one thing for almost every application instead of picking between three different things.

I honestly can't see how remembering several ranges of zstd levels and their time/speed trade-off is any easier than remembering lz4, pigz, xz, which all happen to have good default setting.

[ahofmann]

I use zstd once a year, and it is very easy: 1. the default (3 on my machine) is fast and compresses well. 2. if you need to get the best compression level for your use case, use the benchmark "zstd -b1 -e15 yourfile" and after a few minutes you have your answer.

I can't see why I should ever in my life use another program for compressing things than zstd.