[Dev] Writing an implementation in Go

[Viktor Stanchev]

vikstrous here, just wanted to say that my implementation has only the basics of the dht and the api is not very clean right now. I tried to follow the c api closely because there was no protocol documentation at the time. I suggest rewriting it in a more idiomatic Go way with channels. Hopefully my code will give you a starting point for serialisation and structs.

On February 3, 2016 4:12:05 PM PST, Impyy <impyy at tox.chat> wrote:
>Hello Andon,
>
>Thanks for showing your interest in Tox!
>Tox has full documentation of toxcore and the Tox protocol itself. It's
>
>not properly formatted so it might be a little hard to read, but all of
>
>the information should be there: https://github.com/Tox-Docs/Text. 
>Vikstrous already has some small parts of the Tox protocol implemented 
>in Go, perhaps that's a good resource to look at too: 
>https://github.com/vikstrous/gotox.
>
>I would suggest looking at how the crypto and the DHT work first, 
>implement that, and slowly work your way up.
>If you want to set up your own Tox node for testing you can follow this
>
>guide: 
>https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore/tree/master/other/bootstrap_daemon.
>
>Having multiple implementations of a protocol like Tox is always good 
>and I'm looking forward to see your work. Be sure to join #tox-dev on 
>freenode if you have any questions or if you'd like to discuss your
>design.
>
>Impyy
>
>On 02/03/2016 08:00 PM, Doni Micov wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm a student from Bulgaria and I'm currently studying Computer 
>> science. I enrolled in course teaching the Go programming language.
>In 
>> order to pass I have to complete a project written in Go and have 
>> chosen to write an implementation of the tox core lib. I was
>wondering 
>> if you could give me some pointers for testing the DHT implementation
>
>> like a test node I can send data to and receive data to. Any other 
>> pointers would be of great help.
>>
>> Andon Mitsov
>>
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