part of the reason why i rewrote so much of go-nostr #golang #nostr SDK was because of what i saw, but also i'd heard about fiatjaf's work with - nostr-tools i think it was. also subpar.

i think these libraries are now adequate but they caused all kinds of problems for client devs over the last 18 months that i was watching. this is also why hodlbod made his libraries and same with hzrd149

the thing that is interesting and i always consider to be a red flag. the more hype around a dev, the less likely they are to be fastidious and diligent. we don't want rockstars for devs, they should be the most irritatingly dry, serious people you can find.