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rTorrent is bloated

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-10 23:25

It is 40,000+ lines of disgusting C++.

Too bad nobody's working on unworkable: https://github.com/niallo/Unworkable
It was the best.

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-10 23:30

Use unworkable then if it has no issues.

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-10 23:35

>>2
But it has issues (and is outdated).
I said it was the best. Not maintained currently, unfortunately.

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-11 1:56

Maybe someone woudl work…on it if it wasnt unworkable!

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-11 1:56

>>3
If it's really that good, it shouldn't be hard to bring it up to scratch. Apparently rtorrent, which is bloated and disgusting, gets more development than Unworkable. I wonder why that is?

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-11 2:47

>>5
Apparently rtorrent, which is bloated and disgusting, gets more development than Unworkable. I wonder why that is?
Argumentum ad populum

Why does Linux get more development than Plan 9?
Why is nginx more used than openhttpd?
Why is PHP more popular than Scheme?

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-11 2:54

Why does Linux get more development than Plan 9?
Because it's worse

Why is nginx more used than openhttpd?
Because it's worse

Why is PHP more popular than Scheme?
Because it's worse

Just like this, rtorrent gets more development because it's worse.

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-11 20:58

>>6
Guess what, the popular argument works here because there isn't any other argument that explains it. The developers of the world choose rtorrent because it works and it works today. You couldn't say the same was true for Unworkable, it was just a toy that needed more work before it was useful.

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-11 22:49

dude I just use transmission

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-11 22:57

>>8
the popular argument works here because there isn't any other argument that explains it
fallacy, your argument is now objectively invalid.

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-12 3:55

>>10
fallacy, your argument is now objectively invalid.
fallacy, your argument is now objectively invalid.

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-14 22:47

the overhead from the bittorrent protocol actually working and handling the data far overshadows any "bloat" from the implementation.

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-15 6:33

>>12
rTorrent uses libtorrent which is implemented in C++. I personally don't care whether rTorrent is bloated or not, but I would be very interested to know why libtorrent doesn't include a standard C binding. Not having that means a lot of added effort for clients that aren't written in C++.

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-16 0:03

>>13
I don't know why you'd expect the sort of person who would set out to write a BitTorrent library to be technologically competent. P2P is a skiddy playground.

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-16 3:19

>>14
I thought bittorrent came from the military originally as a way to resist DDOS.

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-16 4:35

>>15
Too bad there's nowhere to look that sort of thing up, so we'll never know. Might have been the military, might have been a grad student at SUNY Buffalo. It's just going to be a mystery forever.

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-16 9:26

>>15
I thought bittorrent came from some kike as an effective way to transfer large files.

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-17 22:56

>>14
P2P is a skiddy playground
But isn't P2P the only way to deal with centralization issues? Such as a server going down or collecting metadata? P2P is the only solution, as far as I can see.

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-17 23:12

>>18
You can use torrents for distrubuted backups. And I think shitbook uses it to push system updates.

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-19 18:50

>>19
Then P2P isn't "a skiddy playground"

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-19 19:22

Skiddy Plaground - (n) A playground that has its floor lubricated so that children will frequently slip and injure themselves.

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-20 3:10

bloat my anus

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-22 20:50

>>22
Nice dubs, but I'll have to refuse, sorry.

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-01 14:52

>>23
thanks, they are indeed nice

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-01 19:00

kek.

If you want a torrent client with low resource usage, what else to use but C++? Writing one in C will take a century.

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-03 6:16

>>24

Stop pretending to be me.

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-04 14:12

Lol some retard made torrent client with C? Seems there are tons of exploitaple buffer overflows. I go craft torrent file for that and see how many new bots I get on my nework.

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-04 14:19

>>27
I go craft
I doubt a negro like you can craft anything.

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-08 0:49

>>27
Seems there are tons of exploitaple buffer overflows
Show me one. Just one.
Or are you all talk and no action like Cudder?

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-08 1:05

NSA is all talk and no action

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-08 3:21

>>30
Worse, all action and no talk.

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-08 3:25

ISIS is all talk and no action.

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-08 5:22

My dubs are all talk and no action.

Name: Anonymous 2015-02-12 15:27


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