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Meshtastic: Text message mesh network using LoRa modems.

Reticulum: full network stack (alternative to IP), mesh, focus on low-speed, unreliable connections. Transport layer agnostic. Current 'Hardware drivers' are written for LoRa, Internet Tunnels, Wifi, Amateur radio.

Reticulum sounds great? It is, but still has 2 problems: 1. The only complete & stable implementation is written in Python and 2. The existing end-user applications have confusing and complex UIs (except for the command-line tools for remote shell and file copy).



Exactly my thoughts. Reticulum feels like an eternal "one day will be great" project but we keep waiting and waiting.


After playing with meshtastic and seeing some packet-loss stats for LoRa in general, I would never even try reticulum. Sounds very, very painful.


Reticulum and Nomadnet should have been rewritten in Golang long ago.


I'm curious, what issues is python causing them?


Slow speed and CPU hogs on legacy machines such as ATOM n270 netbooks.




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