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by eminence32 358 days ago
Some years ago, "iroh" was supposed to a replacement for ipfs. However since then, they (very smartly, in my opinion) dropped those ambitions and are just focused on being a high-quality library for anyone writing a P2P app (like ipfs).

I often see projects attempting to be a universe tool to solve every possible problem, and I think the iroh folks were smart to scale back and narrow their focus

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appreciate the feedback, it was a hard decision to make, but has felt more right everyday since we made it
Aye. You often solve a technical problem while working to build something and later it turns out that building block has more utility than the thing you set out to build.