[scripturial]

It’s a rust crate designed to be a native rust replacement for a rust c wrapper crate. It’s faster and easier to link to in rust projects.

How would you even tell people you made a better rust crate without using the word “rust?”

[egorfine]

Why not spend the efforts to speed up the real zlib? So that the whole world actually gets to spin a bit faster.

Rust folks are claiming excellent interoperability with C binaries. Why the need for a rewrite then?

[swiftcoder]

Maybe because the speed up is easier to attain in a language where you aren't constantly worrying about introducing bugs? Maybe development is easier in a language with more modern tooling?

Interoperability runs both ways, everyone currently taking a dependency on the C library can swap in the rust library in its place and see the same benefits

[throwawaymaths]

you would say "rewritten FOR rust" instead of "rewritten IN rust".

[scripturial]

It’s a rust crate that depended on c and is now literally “rewritten in rust”

[throwawaymaths]

> rust crate