If I weren't making my whole stack from scratch, I'd give it a go. Go-nostr doesn't have the right primitives for what I want to do, nor do I want to fork it because it's too bloated.
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yes I don't like go-nostr either. In the future all of my project will migrate to a minimal library.
Where can I check your work?
https://git.mleku.dev/mleku/nostr i guess you don't like those binary coded things. i agree they are a little fiddly (must remember to use the helpers to compare/extract them). but anyway, just in case you forgot it exists