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Git is pretty good at handling change, and it does it by building on a static object store plus a very thin layer of mutable names. I think IPFS is already suf
by mbrock 10y ago
Git is pretty good at handling change, and it does it by building on a static object store plus a very thin layer of mutable names.
I think IPFS is already sufficient for that, and indeed someone has already built a chat application.
https://github.com/haadcode/orbit https://github.com/haadcode/orbit
The underlying IPFS event database implementation:
https://github.com/haadcode/orbit-db https://github.com/haadcode/orbit-db
I think that there's something related to subscribing to changes without any central point of failure that's not currently possible with the IPFS implementations, but I also think that this is planned.