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Re: Show HN: Synapse, a full featured BitTorrent client in Rust

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Post by kibwen »

floatboth wrote: post #2

Unfortunate name clash ( https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse )

Someone ought to write a website that scrapes popular OSS hosting sites and package repositories and comes up with a list of English words that haven't been taken already. :P

Re: Show HN: Synapse, a full featured BitTorrent client in Rust

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Post by kibwen »

Not that I'm not always eager to see something get rewritten in Rust, but I'm curious whether web browsers have advanced to the point where a bittorrent client could exist as a webapp rather than requiring native installation. Could the bittorrent protocol operate over WebRTC?

Re: Show HN: Synapse, a full featured BitTorrent client in Rust

#5

Post by djstein »

kibwen wrote: post #3
floatboth wrote: post #2

Unfortunate name clash ( https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse )

Someone ought to write a website that scrapes popular OSS hosting sites and package repositories and comes up with a list of English words that haven't been taken already. :P

waiting for kibwen to post a Show HN

Re: Show HN: Synapse, a full featured BitTorrent client in Rust

#6

Post by ronsor »

kibwen wrote: post #4

Not that I'm not always eager to see something get rewritten in Rust , but I'm curious whether web browsers have advanced to the point where a bittorrent client could exist as a webapp rather than requiring native installation. Could the bittorrent protocol operate over WebRTC?

http://webtorrent.io

Re: Show HN: Synapse, a full featured BitTorrent client in Rust

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Post by DennisP »

floatboth wrote: post #2

Unfortunate name clash ( https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse )

More name clashes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapse_(disambiguation)

Anyone using a common English word shouldn't expect to own it exclusively, especially if it's a word that has something to do with computation.

Re: Show HN: Synapse, a full featured BitTorrent client in Rust

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Post by ddevault »

kibwen wrote: post #4

Not that I'm not always eager to see something get rewritten in Rust , but I'm curious whether web browsers have advanced to the point where a bittorrent client could exist as a webapp rather than requiring native installation. Could the bittorrent protocol operate over WebRTC?

Synapse is not designed for people who want this use-case. It's primarily designed for seedbox users who want a daemon to control remotely. It's also designed to efficiently work at scale, and takes advantage of native features like mmap to download quickly.

Also, it wasn't rewritten in Rust from some other language, it was written in Rust in the first place.

Re: Show HN: Synapse, a full featured BitTorrent client in Rust

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Post by rapfaria »

ronsor wrote: post #6
kibwen wrote: post #4

Not that I'm not always eager to see something get rewritten in Rust , but I'm curious whether web browsers have advanced to the point where a bittorrent client could exist as a webapp rather than requiring native installation. Could the bittorrent protocol operate over WebRTC?

http://webtorrent.io

Does it seriously download a 129MB file just by opening the page?

Re: Show HN: Synapse, a full featured BitTorrent client in Rust

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Post by CyberDildonics »

rapfaria wrote: post #9
ronsor wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://webtorrent.io

Does it seriously download a 129MB file just by opening the page?

Ha yeah. Everyone pointed that out the first time this came up and I guess he ignored the feedback.
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