par2z

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A cleanroom reimplementation of the par2 error-correction algorithm, library and cli in Zig, based only on publicly-available specs (NOT its source code), and with a more permissive license, a C ABI wrapper, and a LuaJIT FFI example. Full test coverage. NOTE: gpt-5.2-codex and Claude Opus 4.5 AI assisted in parts.

Target software or hardware
par2
Work type
Reimplementation and compatibility
Primary public repository
github.com/pmarreck/par2z
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A cleanroom reimplementation of the par2 error-correction algorithm, library and cli in Zig, based only on publicly-available specs (NOT its source code), and with a more permissive license, a C ABI wrapper, and a LuaJIT FFI example. Full test coverage. NOTE: gpt-5.2-codex and Claude Opus 4.5 AI assisted in parts.

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