BRbrendoncarroll·Mar 28, 2022Submission
Show HN: Go Networking Library Using Generics
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go-p2p
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go-p2p
Message-Based P2P Networking Library
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| May 2021 | 2021-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jun 2021 | 2021-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2021 | 2021-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2021 | 2021-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2021 | 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2021 | 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2021 | 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2021 | 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jan 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2022 | 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2022 | 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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3 sourcesAfter reading a little through the WebFS [1] filesystem approach that it seems to be based upon: why did you not try to stay RFC compliant with say, WebDAV [2] or similar alternatives?
From a versioning control point of view WebDAV seems to be exactly the thing that you're trying to achieve, especially in regards to Delta-V?
I might be wrong, did I miss something? I guess what I'm trying to find out is what the ultimate goals or features of the WebFS are, given that WebDAV exists and is supported by git as a remote filesystem. WebDAV seems to have a specification and lots of support by other server implementations, so I'm wondering what kind of featureset was missing in there that WebFS now includes.
The overall internal cell/branch structure of got seems to be similar to how git uses blobs and trees as a list of references to blobs.
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seem to have also built a p2p library which I found pretty neat and might also be interesting to other HN readers (go-p2p) [3] that you use now as a transport layer. What I specifically liked about it is that it's based on QUIC, so it has no troubles staying under the radar of traffic classification, while still being able to punch holes. The generic abstraction by different protocols is really nice, and similar to what I've tried to do with my p2p networks. Seeing network protocols just as a way to transport (or encapsulate) things usually makes the logic behind swarm interactions more robust.
[1] https://github.com/brendoncarroll/webfs/blob/master/pkg/webf...
[2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4918
[3] https://github.com/brendoncarroll/go-p2p
A message based p2p library.
https://github.com/brendoncarroll/go-p2p
There is a single abstraction (the Swarm) which is capable of modeling communication, NAT, and identity. And you can layer them (Swarms) to provide whatever functionality you need. For the most part, you communicate using tell or ask methods.
The big name in this space is lib-p2p. It doesn’t have a UDP transport (it exists but is incomplete), and the examples were focused on manipulating streams so it wasn’t clear how to model message based communication from reading the docs. You also have to buy into many other abstractions when you use it e.g. multiaddrs.
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