zlib-rs: a stable API and 30M downloads
Summary
zlib-rs reaches a stable and complete API with version 0.6 and reports 30M downloads. It highlights memory-safe data compression as an alternative to C/C++, integration with flate2 and rustls, and a C-compatible libz-rs-sys API. The post also covers ABI changes, added gz* support, and future work including nightly Rust limitations.