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no C or C++? Looks promising but would love a C++ version

Same here, except I prefer C since that makes it more accessible.

That would also allow others to write clients for their favorite languages.

I'd also prefer a C version, but I think it's possible to call a Go function from C [0]. I don't know how well that would work though, since Go requires a runtime.

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/cgo#calling-go-functions-f...

C also requires a runtime, it just happens to be a very tiny one.

There is also a Rust implementation of libp2p[0]. Exposing C functions from that library is probably the most "proper" way currently feasible to use libp2p from C.

[0]https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p

Simple, C++ with an additional extern "C"{} set of entry points.

C++'s improved safety over C, while providing such accessibility.

We are after all talking about network protocols, where security should be number one feature.

Would be cool if we had an ESP8266 and ESP32 friendly implementation for IoT

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