> Everyone should be using zstd

Why?

It's just the best general purpose compression algorithm, in terms of compression ratio to CPU used, for the vast majority of use cases

It's just this good.

On a more realistic note: few years back, I've added zstd compression to our log subsystem (hand written direct buffers, native code, in-process, java). For the same CPU utilization if provides twice dense compression compared to regular [-6] gzip (the topic in the title). Zstd is =much= faster on decompression as well, and it this case - unparalleledly better as it uses twice less disk.

zstd is 'silicon valley' (the tv show) - life imitates fiction, except entirely open source