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Iroh: A library to establish direct connection between peers

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238 points gasull | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 16:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.403s | source
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outside1234 ◴[26 Jun 25 01:47 UTC] No.44383512[source]▶
The promise of this is super interesting. How would people compare it to libp2p? Is libp2p a lower level toolkit that leaves the assembly to you?
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1. dpc_01234 ◴[26 Jun 25 04:46 UTC] No.44384261[source]▶
Each time I looked at libp2p I didn't even knew where to begin. With Iroh it was trivial to get connections.

Also, AFAIK, Iroh makes some architectural choices (using relays to help establish connections), that make it less "pure p2p", but much more likely to actually work reliably.