Snappy archived?

[Brian Olson]

https://github.com/golang/snappy

2025-03-07 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?

[Jason E. Aten]

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

https://chromium.googlesource.com/external/github.com/klauspost/compress/+/master/s2

[Robert Engels]



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.  

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[bolson]

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]"

[Robert Engels]



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. 

https://github.com/google/snappy

On Dec 16, 2025, at 10:49 AM, bolson <brian...@gmail.com> wrote:

It's not about 'want to go slower' it's about 'had not heard of the new stuff'.

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[Robert Engels]

from the project:

“The Snappy bitstream format is stable and will not change between versions.”

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