Nuh on Nostr: If you plan on building any p2p network, Iroh should be the first thing to try, and ...
If you plan on building any p2p network, Iroh should be the first thing to try, and you most likely won't try anything else, because it just works.
Caveat is; make sure you actually need p2p, because Iroh can't magically solve all the other challenges inherit at leaderless distributed systems.
So far I like it.
QUIC with quinn? Sweet.
ed25519? Sweet. Probably what we should do now as post-quantum stuff has significant costs.
Rust? Sweet.
Hole Punching? Suprising. I didn't think holes could be punched as frequently/successfully as they seem to claim.
Relaying? OK given it is a fallback and you can run your own.
Open Source? Sweet.
TLS with rustls? Sweet.
Pkarr into mainline DHT for decentralized lookups? It functions well.
I don't have much to complain about.
Published at
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