A lot of people have died horribly, millions, perhaps billions of lives have been affected negatively, democracies have been subverted, but at least we got a nice compression algorithm?

And React, although the jury remains out on whether that's a transformative technology or... not.

> What is your point? That zstd cannot exist? That it shouldn't? I can't read minds you know.

Would it be better that:

* zstd exists because Meta exists (net benefiting over other people's pain — including possibly the 'pain' of genocide), or

* a genocide did not happen (or was not as bad) because Meta did not exist (but we never got zstd)?