Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure
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#2Very intriguing. I was just beginning research into a server-less shared state model and this seems to solve that quite nicely.
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#4how do you solve the p2p user_id problem? everyone can be everyone when faking the id on some client.
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#5I would love some comments on the maturity and performance of Clojure (speed, load times, memory consumption, executable size...) for Android apps.
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#6how do you solve the p2p user_id problem? everyone can be everyone when faking the id on some client.
It's derived from your public key, so only those with the corresponding private key can update the meta torrent for your user.
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#7I would love some comments on the maturity and performance of Clojure (speed, load times, memory consumption, executable size...) for Android apps.
While the app is interesting, I am also more interested in Clojure's feasibility for writing Android apps. Last time I looked, Dalvik's GC was so bad it took many seconds for the Clojure runtime to bootstrap.
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#8I would love some comments on the maturity and performance of Clojure (speed, load times, memory consumption, executable size...) for Android apps.
Things have improved quite a bit recently. Daniel Solano Gomez is the pioneer here, and Alex Yakushev made it a lot simpler by creating the lein-droid plugin for leiningen last summer.
It will impose a few seconds of load time no matter what, so it is best for long-running apps where loading time isn't as important. The cost in runtime speed, memory consumption, and APK size are also present, but aren't a big issue in my experience. The same Clojure optimization rules apply.
I think things will get better and better once more people use Clojure to write Android apps. It will be a signal to the core devs that it's an important platform. Currently, you must use a fork of 1.5 that includes a few necessary modifications.
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#9I have been waiting for this.
Here's my Nightweb link for anyone interested in experimenting with me: http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=5avfzwgkdzgddsv3...
gw: It would be great to have multiple personas available to me, like an inverse of google+ circles.
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