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It's not accurate. Widely adopted client before uTorrent was Azureus and it was written in Java.
by lossolo 10y ago
It's not accurate. Widely adopted client before uTorrent was Azureus and it was written in Java.
- takeda 10y agoThe very first torrent client written by Bram Cohen (the person who invented bittorrent) was written in Python[1]. I remember it, because 15 years ago that was the only client available. Later people started creating other clients by forking his python code, and eventually rewriting it in different languages. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(software)
- lossolo 10y agoAnd no one used it, you know what was before C ? You probably don't because no one used it also after that. Azureus was developed 13 years ago and that was the client that was used... I know because i remember it also. And then they (from bittorrent inc) changed their python version to C++ and called it uTorrent because python was too slow and no one wanted to use it...
- self 10y agoLots of people used the Python client because not everyone wanted to run Java (memory hog) or were on Windows (uTorrent). Azureus had one advantage: first to support the DHT and trackerless operation.