FYI: Making java bindings for fsst

[JervenBolleman]

Dear @peterboncz, all,

Just wanted to say thank you for creating and documenting FSST so clearly. I am implementing some java bindings for FSST at FSST4j.

I had to reimplement the decoder in Java (easy enough once I finally understood how the fsst_export data structure is encoded, took me longer than it should have). This is because the fsst_decompress is not findable by jextract as it is an inline function.

Still lots of work to be done before this fsst4j is production ready. The reason I wanted to inform you about this work early is that I thought it was correct to have the automatic generated binding code to be placed into a java package nl.cwi.da.fsst to give proper credit. However, you might prefer that is done differently.

Regards,
Jerven

[jeschkies]

I've started with Rust bindings https://github.com/jeschkies/fsst-rs and moved the fsst_decompress but I guess it should be ported instead, like you did.

Unfortunately my bindings are not working yet.

[peterboncz]

apologies for the late reaction great to hear this is being picked up in JVM and rust.
In order to give these implementations more visibility, and try to limit fragmentation of implementations, I would be willing to let (good-quality) implementations into this repo. You can also contact me privately if you wish to discuss this.