just released the rust lnsocket crate, the easiest way to connect to lightning nodes to send custom messages like commando rpc.

this is more opinionated than LDK, uses tokio+async, does way less. all it does it connect to nodes so you can send custom messages. It's great for building custom protocols on top of the lightning network.

My usecase is fetching invoices from the damus lightning node for dave and other applications. Also going to look into this for fetching bolt12 invoices in damus clients.

check it out!