We built tar-codec: a fast and secure tar parser for the Rust ecosystem.
This is a dev post classified by AGK Intelligence as Languages & runtimes (a tool drop), kept by the Dev Radar because it carries real work, not commentary.
We built tar-codec: a fast and secure tar parser for the Rust ecosystem. It's roughly twice as fast as our previous tar implementation, but with much lower exposure to parser differentials and other security risks. Here's the state machine btw. https://astral.sh/blog/tar-codec
Posted by Charlie Marsh (53.1k followers) 3 days ago · 522 likes · 21.9k views · view the original post on X. Kept by the Dev Radar as Languages & runtimes.
More dev work like this
- Haskell Tutorial and Cookbook by Mark Watson (2016) is now in ChapterPal collection of… — @burkov
- Whenever someone interacts with a website, that's potential data a marketer can analyze. — @freeCodeCamp
- Roundhouse turns Rails apps into standalone binaries or services in Rust, Swift,… — @rustaceans_rs
- We're starting work on Pydantic V3. — @pydantic
- zuvloop: a drop-in asyncio event loop, powered by libuv and written in Zig ⚡ — @marcelotryle
- Small Crates Behind Big Rust Systems — @rustaceans_rs
- js tip. infinity — @xah_lee
- massive tech geeking on javascript. — @xah_lee
Every post is read and classified by AGK Intelligence: what it is, which market it belongs to, and whether the link is a real tool. 31.2k posts from 5k X accounts over the last 21 days, 8.8k tools, 12 markets. New posts are collected several times an hour and the full ranking is recomputed every hour — last update 2026-10-30 22:17 UTC. Full method.