It's good, but is it "the future" when it's extra work?
Consider that you could hand-code an algorithm to recognize cats in images but we would rather let the machine just figure it out for itself. We're kind of averse to manual work and complexity where we can brute force or heuristic our way out of the problem. For the 80% of situations where piping it into zstd gets you to stay within budget (bandwidth, storage, cpu time, whatever your constraint is), it's not really worth doing about 5000% more effort to squeeze out thrice the speed and a third less size
It really is considerably better, but I wonder how many people will do it, which means less implicit marketing by seeing it everywhere like we do the other tools, which means even fewer people will know to do it, etc.
Consider that you could hand-code an algorithm to recognize cats in images but we would rather let the machine just figure it out for itself. We're kind of averse to manual work and complexity where we can brute force or heuristic our way out of the problem. For the 80% of situations where piping it into zstd gets you to stay within budget (bandwidth, storage, cpu time, whatever your constraint is), it's not really worth doing about 5000% more effort to squeeze out thrice the speed and a third less size
It really is considerably better, but I wonder how many people will do it, which means less implicit marketing by seeing it everywhere like we do the other tools, which means even fewer people will know to do it, etc.