Goodbye C Language! bzip2 Officially Transitions from C to Rust
You read that right, the aging compression algorithm—bzip2, which still exists in countless software dependency trees, has officially embraced Rust. In the latest release of bzip2 crate 0.6.0, it no longer calls the C library by default, but instead fully utilizes the Rust-implemented libbz2-rs-sys. This means: faster performance, simpler cross-compilation, stronger compatibility, and enhanced safety. … Read more