Don't Use RAR

• zip

  2 1,320 7.1 C

  A portable, simple zip library written in C (by kuba--)

• Squirrel

  37 7,169 6.0 C++

  An installation and update framework for Windows desktop apps

  

You can have that with updates using Squirrel; https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• NanaZip

  73 7,086 9.1 C++

  The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience

  

Ive been a user of 7-zip for years. I've recently switched to NanaZip which is a fork which works with windows 11 new context menu and adds in some other niceties. https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip

• reedsolomon

  10 1,805 6.3 Assembly

  Reed-Solomon Erasure Coding in Go

Par2 is always an option, and RAR implements Reed-Solomon error correcting codes and there are many recent implementations of those: https://github.com/klauspost/reedsolomon.

• srep

  1 0 2.2 C

  Discontinued Source for srep from the FreeArc project. This is not my code, I am merely uploading it for preservation purposes.

I typically don't make use of standard archive formats these days for my own file storage. If I want just pure maximum compression, I'll often use a long-range matcher like FreeArc's srep [1] or lrzip [2] combined with either fast-lzma2 [3] using a p7zip fork [4] for multithreading or use mcm [5] or zpaq.

However, my truly preferred way is using dwarfs [6], which features some really good deduplication and (by default) zstd compression while being mountable. Most of my files are highly compressed and easily accessible without needing to full decompress them. Admittedly, I don't make use of PAR2 or anything of the sort, but I could just do that the traditional way if I so wished.

[1]: https://github.com/Phantop/srep

• fast-lzma2

  1 261 10.0 C

  Fast LZMA2 Library

• p7zip

  13 737 0.0 C

  A new p7zip fork with additional codecs and improvements (forked from https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/ AND https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/).

  

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com featured

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

• mcm

  5 105 0.0 C++

  MCM file compressor

• dwarfs

  21 1,957 9.8 C++

  A fast high compression read-only file system for Linux, Windows and macOS

• par3cmdline

  2 82 8.4 C

  Official repo for par3cmdline and par3lib

  

• par2cmdline

  28 679 0.0 C++

  Official repo for par2cmdline and libpar2

  

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