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Re:Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 by Ericson2314 on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @02:08PM (#24631064)
Yeah the layering in Protocol Lab's work is really nice.

The tendency of funded / for-profit software is to eschew layering, so it's easy to try out but ultimately ill-fitting and inflexible. This is a core problem of capitalism with IT.

IPFS, libp2p, IPLD, Filecoin etc. all resist that temptation, and I think it will help them greatly in the end.

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Re:Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 by whyrusleeping on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @05:39PM (#24633340)
I really appreciate hearing things like this :) We put a ton of work into making the layering of our projects just right so that they can be reused over and over even if other things we're working on fail. It often does make it slower for us to make progress (could take soooo many shortcuts if we tried to collapse the stack) but I really do believe it's worth the effort.
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