from the project:
“The Snappy bitstream format is stable and will not change between versions.” On Dec 16, 2025, at 11:21 AM, 'Robert Engels' via golang-nuts <[email protected]> wrote:
but snappy did not go away. The project is alive and well. AFAIK there are no plans to change the protocol so if it works it works.
It's not about 'want to go slower' it's about 'had not heard of the new stuff'. Would have been nice for snappy to leave a note, "we had a good run, but others have picked up where we left off, go see [url, url, etc]" On Monday, December 15, 2025 at 5:19:17 PM UTC-5 Robert Engels wrote:
That’s not really how many systems work though. It’s not about “want to go slower” — it’s interoperability with systems that cannot read those new formats.
This is pure speculation of my part, and I still use a ton of snappy, but Klaus Post's S2 and now the next generation MinLZ would appear to have surpassed snappy in performance while providing a backwards compatible migration path.
Old data snappy compressed can be read, and new data can compressed and decompressed faster.
So from a technical standpoint, there's not much call for snappy in new code, unless you deliberately want to go slower than what is now possible. That is a rare want.
Links:
https://gist.github.com/klauspost/a25b66198cdbdf7b5b224f670c894ed5
On Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:43:48 AM UTC-3 Brian Olson wrote:
https://github.com/golang/snappy2025-03-07 they made a 1.0.0 release and marked the repo as archived and read-only. I usually think of that as deprecated, but maybe in this case it's a weird way of saying they think it's perfect and will never change?
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