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This project really needs more attention. Would have resolved the issue we had earlier today. Some others ideas:

* Write a client in C, JS sucks

* Make a web-frontend for this so average users can jump on quickly.

I understand the sentiment “JS sucks,” but not in relation to C for most things. Modern js is rather nice in syntax, and quite performant in V8. Heck, you can transpile it to C with Bellard’s QuickJS (or just compile directly to binary) if there’s some C library interop that your comment is based on (although nodejs has a perfectly good C++ plugin system for this).

There’s also git-ssb

https://github.com/noffle/git-ssb-intro

Unfortunately, SSB uses far more JS than they really should.

Regardless, just learned about https://radicle.xyz/, which looks more active and mature than what I linked

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