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		josteink on March 3, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Synapse, a full featured BitTorrent clien... Yes. That was what was ironic since I (wrongly) complained about slow python based software.

swinglock on March 3, 2018 [–]

The first implementation of BitTorrent was written in Python. I don't think it has happened once since, not as any serious attempt anyway.

The clients that use Python today are not slow because they all use rasterbar-libtorrent as a C Python module that performs all of the heavy lifting.

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