README.md

Hobbits, or There and Back Again

A Lightweight, Multiclient Wire Protocol For ETH2.0 Communications

Hobbits is a modular wire protocol which allows implementers to experiment with various application logic over a practical network in an agnostic and expedient manner.

Specifications

The protocol specification can be found here.

Implementations

Demo Implementations

Demo implementations may be out of date

• C
• C++
• Common Lisp
• D
• Erlang
• Go
• Java
• Javascript
• Perl
• PHP
• Python
• Racket
• Rust
• Scheme
• Swift
• Bash
• Ruby

Full Implementations

• Java
• Swift
• Go
• Typescript

Missing languages

• brainfuck
• x86 asm
• ada
• css3

Setup

sh setup.sh

Running Tests

python test/run.py

Note: This chicken shit python test runner is written in python 2.

Basic benchmark results against Protobuf.

Contributing

Please create issues to document your critiques, suggestions, improvements, etc. We will use it as a discussion funnel to refine this specification and move forward towards a stable 1.0

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