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Dima Krasner's Guppy Protocol Specification Has an Implementation in Python Now

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 29, 2023

However rudimentary, protocols' prototypes count too

THE developer Dima Krasner has just published a "Sample guppy:// Server" for Guppy Protocol Specification - a new and experimental protocol that we mentioned in passing in Daily Links, e.g. [1, 2, 3]. It's simpler than Gemini, it's new, and it uses UDP. Krasner's Gemini capsule is notoriously slow (it can take more than 6 seconds to load a page), maybe due to the fact that the underlying hardware is exceptionally low end (we had the same issue), and it's far from the first lightweight alternative to Gemini. Gopher is already very simple, but it lacks some supposedly "modern" features and it is considered "old" (we still link to Gopher regardless).

Whatever comes out of this new protocol, we wish Krasner luck and will offer support, at least in the publicity sense. It's good when protocols come out of communities rather than monopolistic corporations. █