[snickerer]

Meshtastic: Text message mesh network using LoRa modems.

Reticulum: full network stack (alternative to IP), mesh, focus on low-speed, unreliable connections. Transport layer agnostic. Current 'Hardware drivers' are written for LoRa, Internet Tunnels, Wifi, Amateur radio.

Reticulum sounds great? It is, but still has 2 problems: 1. The only complete & stable implementation is written in Python and 2. The existing end-user applications have confusing and complex UIs (except for the command-line tools for remote shell and file copy).

[nunobrito]

Exactly my thoughts. Reticulum feels like an eternal "one day will be great" project but we keep waiting and waiting.

[sandos]

After playing with meshtastic and seeing some packet-loss stats for LoRa in general, I would never even try reticulum. Sounds very, very painful.

[anthk]

Reticulum and Nomadnet should have been rewritten in Golang long ago.

[gpm]

I'm curious, what issues is python causing them?

[anthk]

Slow speed and CPU hogs on legacy machines such as ATOM n270 netbooks.