Looks like you are confused here, pear is a like a library for building peer to peer apps and http is a protocol.
Talking about holesail here, it supports http as well as ftp.
How is pear different from http? #asknostr #dev
Can't http and ftp be done p2p ? nostr:nprofile1qqstnem9g6aqv3tw6vqaneftcj06frns56lj9q470gdww228vysz8hqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcjgxv3n nostr:nprofile1qqst69c7cwzh54r2n3n9uqtfx8t3wldatf5g0xfzwenrnqzg8vdvc9gpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsxvtdhr I'm very interested but off the cuff, without a lot of digging on my part I don't see how it helps p2p. Eli5 🙏🏻
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Ahh, thank you. I incorrectly assumed it was another protocol layer.
He is probably conflating Pear and Hypercore because I have started conflating them out of simplicity. I would say the underlying foundation is a protocol but it doesn’t really compete with any other, it just uses them all to create a new networking trick
I understand pear is a runtime now. I'm still kind of confused how this runtime enabled a moe p2p network. Like does it run applications on a client from a server p2p? Where the server client are the same network across space? I'm trying to wrap my head around this. I'm at work and don't have time to play with it right now.