THIS REPOSITORY HAS MOVED.

Hobbits has been adopted by the DeltaP2P Foundation where it is now being maintained.

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

EWP 0.2

• EBNF Grammar
• Protocol

ETH 2.0 Protocol

• Messages

Implementations

Demo Implementations

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

Full Implementations

• Java
• Swift

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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