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The 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
by takeda 10y ago
The 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.