Stream: show and tell

Topic: niclas-ahden/roc-deflate


view this post on Zulip Niclas Ahden (Jul 22 2026 at 22:04):

Like inflating or deflating stuff? Do it in Roc! https://github.com/niclas-ahden/roc-deflate

I've been working on this for quite some time, and it's been a ton of fun learning, but please temper your expectations of perf/size at this point :sweat_smile: I'll let Claude take the wheel later and it'll shatter my puny attempts in a heartbeat (this is what it's made for!) so we'll probably get a juicy update to this!

Here's how it's currently doing: https://github.com/niclas-ahden/roc-deflate#choosing-a-level

view this post on Zulip Niclas Ahden (Sep 14 2026 at 14:09):

Release 0.3.0 supports the latest Roc version: https://github.com/niclas-ahden/roc-deflate/releases/tag/0.3.0 :tada:

view this post on Zulip Richard Feldman (Sep 14 2026 at 14:21):

@Niclas Ahden nice! Have you tried out the stuff I've been PRing?

view this post on Zulip Richard Feldman (Sep 14 2026 at 14:21):

should be much faster and there are tests that its output is identical to libdeflate

view this post on Zulip Niclas Ahden (Sep 14 2026 at 14:23):

Oh, I thought you'd PR to https://github.com/niclas-ahden/roc-deflate/pulls but I can't see any? Are you referring to PRs to the Roc repo?

view this post on Zulip Richard Feldman (Sep 14 2026 at 15:17):

oops, I'd made the PRs against my fork, not upstream :laughing:

view this post on Zulip Richard Feldman (Sep 14 2026 at 15:17):

can you see them now?

view this post on Zulip Niclas Ahden (Sep 14 2026 at 15:19):

All good ;D Thanks, I'll have a look at these!


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