Blog posts for `bzip2-rs`

• 2026-03-30 Author: Folkert de Vries bzip2-rs zlib-rs zstd-rs data compression

  Fixing our own problems in the Rust compiler

  In our data compression projects, we use Rust where C is traditionally used. During the work, we've hit limitations in Rust itself and in the surrounding tooling. Over the years, we've become increasingly comfortable with fixing these issues ourselves.

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• 2025-06-17 Author: Folkert de Vries bzip2-rs data compression

  bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% rust

  Today we published bzip2 version 0.6.0, which uses our rust implementation of the bzip2 algorithm, libbz2-rs-sys, by default. The bzip2 crate is now faster and easier to cross-compile.

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• 2025-03-10 Author: Folkert de Vries bzip2-rs data compression

  Translating bzip2 with c2rust

  Over the past couple of months we've been hard at work on libbzip2-rs, a 100% Rust drop-in compatible implementation the bzip2 compression and decompression functionality.

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