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Re: "Guppy, a UDP-based smolnet protocol"
@Odintsoff Spartan would meet that bill. its essentially Gemini minus TLS, with some other minor differences.
Aug 09 · 3 months ago
Complexity has to be somewhere: in the TCP/IP stack, the TLS library or the application. Sometimes, "small" or "simple" is "inefficient" or "slow" (no out-of-order packets, blocking, etc'). This is an exercise in simplification: some would say it goes too far and some would say it makes Gopher, Spartan and the hypothetical Mercury seem less 'simple' because the complexity is still there when TLS is not involved.
— The Guppy Protocol Specification v0.2
Guppy, a UDP-based smolnet protocol — @dimkr has been publishing about Guppy, a new smolnet protocol based on UDP. I posted some feedback on the spec based on writing a toy Guppy client and server. While not Gemini-specific, the whole experience has taught me alot: Writing good, unambiguous specs is crazy hard. @solderpunk did a really good job designing most of Gemini I actually enjoy reading specs and...