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The landing page may be a bit too minimal in giving overview of this cool project. I really liked the direction towards real-time P2P networking, based on Iroh [0]. See the blog post about this [1].

> After almost two years of collaboration with the wonderful Iroh team, and years of discussions with numerous experts in the decentralization space, we are happy to announce that Delta Chat 1.48 apps on all platforms contain state-of-the-art Peer-to-Peer networking support, including hole punching and forward-secret end-to-end encryption. Concretely, Delta Chat now establishes private Peer-to-Peer gossipping networks between users who start a webxdc app that uses the new joinRealtimeChannel() API.

[0] https://iroh.computer/

[1] https://delta.chat/en/2024-11-20-webxdc-realtime



I’ve been experimenting with Iroh over the past month. It’s been such a pleasant experience. Previously, I created a p2p connection with webrtc and had to create a layer on top of that to use request/response style communication between nodes. I can throw that all away with Iroh and focus on the product. It’s a relief.




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