Freenet build 1495 released: new user entrance, user experience, performance

Re:Freenet build 1495 released: new user entrance, user expe... by cutler on Thursday December 29, 2022 @10:05PM (#34181324)

Definitely. Ian Clarke's Freenet has been around since March 2000 which is when I discovered Linux and Perl. The only thing I don't understand is why it was written in Java instead of C/C++. Napster was also built with Java, however, so even slow as Java was back then it was still fast enough for building file-sharing networks.

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Re:Freenet build 1495 released: new user entrance, user expe... by dale_glass on Friday December 30, 2022 @02:24AM (#34182756)

Java was a much better choice security-wise back in 2000.

But I think it crippled adoption, it required far too much RAM for the computers of the time.

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