[Cuis] IPFS on Smalltalk

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Joe,

Someone saying "awesome!" and "cool!" so many times at his own stuff 
makes me a little uncomfortable... But, anyway:

It looks like Dropbox, but peer to peer, right?

The possibility of publishing and sharing stuff without a central 
provider is of course desirable.

Before starting to implement bindings and calls to the api... Is that 
really needed? It is integrated in the file system, so maybe not.

More interesting than that, what are some apps that could benefit from 
it? How would they do that?

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

On 8/24/2015 8:42 AM, Joe Shirk wrote:
> Dear all, especially @Masashi
>
> I wanted to draw attention to the http://ipfs.io project, "the 
> permanent web" which works. It is a distributed peer-to-peer 
> filesystem that works somewhat like bittorrent. You get the 
> functionality of Git as well. It is truly ingenious.
>
> Since I have taken an interest in Smalltalk (I'm still learning) I 
> have salivated at the  possibilities for, say Amber + ipfs.
>
> There is currently a call for APIs implemented in other languages;
> https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs/issues
> I see no one there is interested in Smalltalk so I though I should 
> undertake it, but it will be many months before I have the knowledge 
> and there is no guarantee that I am up to the task... Now seeing that 
> Masashi is working with filesystems, perhaps you would take an 
> interest in this idea.
>
> The inventor Juan Benet has many brilliant ideas and has done several 
> presentations to be found on the ipfs site. Unfortunately, he seems to 
> drink a lot of coffee and talks extremely fast and does not enunciate, 
> making the presentations very difficult to understand for those of 
> whom english is a second language. I can definitely help with this by 
> making a transcript if there is interest.
>