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This looks cool! I'm writing an immutable data store, with my own hashes as IDs; I wonder how viable it would be to use IPFS CID's as my IDs?

I expect the trouble there would be how the data is chunked. If IPFS disagrees about the chunking we would have different CIDs.

.. also i'd need to implement all of this myself to get it in Rust. Hmm.

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https://github.com/ipfs-rust

Maybe some of the building blocks you need can be found in there somewhere.

Not implementing the core of the protocol in something portable-library-friendly has been a real drag on IPFS. It's made it, in practice, more of a program than a protocol.

The counter-argument is that they'd not have made so much progress in the first place, in the short list of languages that qualify as portable-library-friendly.

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