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Re:The European Commission is preparing an attack on the hyp... by jumperjake on Saturday November 07, 2015 @09:38AM (#10524875)
I completely support the IPFS (especially with them keeping content hosting explicitly out of scope). The problem I faced when trying to leverage IPFS for a project is that the reference implementation is very difficult to use in languages other than Go, and to completely embed in applications (as in staticly linking to sqlite).
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Re:The European Commission is preparing an attack on the hyp... by ashark on Saturday November 07, 2015 @12:03PM (#10525343)
Yeah, I like Go, but the reference implementation should have been a C library (or similar). There are splinter projects trying to implement it for other languages, but they're either already dead or moving at a snail's pace.

I love the idea, but that decision leaves me with little confidence that it'll catch on.

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Re:The European Commission is preparing an attack on the hyp... by joeyspn on Saturday November 07, 2015 @09:45AM (#10524900)
I guess it just needs time for maturing: more languages and better UX. If IPFS finally piggybacks on the Ethereum ecosystem it will accelerate considerably this...
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