Compression support

[brancz]

We're quite interested in using Flechette as it implements many of the types we'd like to use more (namely REE, ListView), but it currently lacks compression support. Is there support planned or appetite for it? I would expect it to be quite similar to the implementation in arrow-js (I especially like that compression is pluggable and not included by default, thus not bloating the library if people don't use it).

[jheer]

I would be happy to see compression support added to Flechette, especially in a pluggable fashion. Given time limitations on my end I'm unlikely to be able to dig into this in the short term, but would be excited to see (and help guide) a PR that adds compression functionality.

[jheer]

Actually, I got interested in this and it turns out it was not too big a lift.

I have a working implementation of compression support (both encoding and decoding) in #63. If anyone wants to take that PR for a spin, please try it out and let me know how it goes.

[brancz]

Very exciting! Our migration from arrow-js to flechette is underway! We’ll let you know if we run into any trouble with the compression support (or otherwise).

[manojVivek]

Thank you for the quick turn around on this one! 🎉

Just noticed this is not publish to npm yet, is there a release cycle or just adhoc releases?

[jheer]

@manojVivek v2.3.0 with compression support was just released!