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Iroh 1.0 1 month ago

tailscale also is written in go, making the integration on mobile especially, often times a lot harder and more expensive

Iroh 1.0 1 month ago

Which I just finished updating to 1.0. But it is currently lacking in breadth of API, so if you start using it let us know what you are missing. In the meantime https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-ffi has the other language bindings with a more comprehensive API

Iroh 1.0 1 month ago

Yes, but libp2p was mainly designed around the limitations of tcp, as quic simply wasn't there yet when the design started. Iroh gets the benefit of having been designed and built from the ground up, based on quic.

Iroh 1.0 1 month ago

I would love to see that P2P DNS you are talking about

Iroh 1.0 1 month ago

the zen life advice will come if you use it long enough :)

Iroh 1.0 1 month ago

Tailscale is built to be global to your device, while iroh is built to be embedded into each application. This allows application developers and users a much more fine grained and bespoke setup, than having a single global bridge.

Iroh 1.0 1 month ago

While it doesn't solve all the issues that come up through the current segmentation, it is very much possible today to assemble components that let you forget about segmentation while you use it. And it is designed from the ground up, to use existing internet technologies, while avoiding the lock in and dependencies on browser vendors or other large players.

Iroh 1.0 1 month ago

As others have already mentioned, iroh the core library and protocol is fully open source. But to finance the development of it, we offer additional services to make it easier to deploy and run it, especially for larger or more specialized use caes.

Iroh 1.0 1 month ago

hey, I helped make this :) will try to answer questions where I can

Dumb Pipe 12 months ago

relays _can_ be used to resolve IDs, but so can mDNS, an email or any other form of third party channel

Dumb Pipe 12 months ago

thanks everyone for all the love <3

[maintainer of iroh here]

While rpgp is slowly gaining support for this format (the aid users to be able to talk to anyone they want) it will keep emitting the broadest compatible format for a while by default, until the whole ecosystem has upgraded. The aggressive stance from gnupg is really hurting people and removes one of the biggest benefits of pgp, broad interop with compliant implementations.

Fun fact, the main reason I developed rpgp in the first place was to power the pgp portion pf deltachat, as we ran into the same problem of not having a good library based implementation. And spawning gnupg on a phone was never an option.

I switched from backbone to angular about half a year ago. It was the best thing that ever happened to the project I was working on. I've rebuilt the complete interface using angular in 2 days. The original backbone version took me weeks (I learned both frameworks from the ground up while writing the interface) It was just a joy to see how databinding and promises where working hand in hand to make my life as a developer so much easier.