Very cool, I fully support this and I plan to experiment with it. The developers should be proud of making such exciting progress.

But doesn’t “ready for production use” sound like hyperbole when the blog post describes a partially completed implementation? It can’t even connect to onion services yet. Similarly, “improved security” is a suspect claim to make when comparing brand new software to a battle-tested codebase.

There’s no point making claims like that in this phase of early-adopter outreach; it burns future credibility for no reason. We’ll play with the software regardless.

IMO a more accurate claim would be “Arti Tor client, socks proxy and Rust crate can now connect to clearnet hosts through the Tor network, but is still missing some features like bridges and pluggable transports.”