Holy thank <i>god</i>. These things deserve to be written in Rust (see also, matrix-rust-sdk and the entire ecosystem rebasing on it). And ipfs-go and the existing ipfs ecosystem, I'm just so disappointed. They've had <i>so</i> much money floating around, so many filecoin adjacent projects with ipfs-adjacent insiders and yet so much low hanging fruit that seems unrealized or locked up in poc nodejs projects.<p>This is probably the single best thing to happen for ipfs in 3+ years. Bravo, I actually have hope in ipfs again.<p>The messaging on the site makes me think I'm not alone in feeling this, and that excites me even more.
Hey folks, I am one of the founders behind this project, happy to answer any questions you might have about it.
We have an initial release out since earlier today: <a href="https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh/releases/tag/v0.1.0" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh/releases/tag/v0.1.0</a> but we are still very early, so be gentle :)
> We are targeting the end of October 2022 for an initial version,<p>heh, they better hurry :-D<p>but seriously, I hope this cures some of the oft-reported perf woes with go-ipfs
What IPFS lacks that I think would be ideal is a distributed file system. Let's say that Wikipedia shares some data, and I only have 100GB of space but want to help them out, then being able to dedicate 100GB of storage to help Wikipedia or whoever else would be awesome.<p>Also, if I have a complete file or backup on multiple computers being able to immediately start sharing that across multiple servers without having to use like double the storage to also share it with IPFS.
Not to be facetious, but what are serious use cases / uses of IPFS in the wild? I usually use it for downloading books from Libgen… I’d be curious to hear from people who use it for less illicit stuff. I think it’s a wonderful project and good to have more than one implementation.