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

On Sunday, December 14, 2025 at 10:43:48 AM UTC-3 Brian Olson wrote:

> 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?
>

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