Earthstar – A database for private, distributed, offline-first applications

I believe this is superseded by the Willow protocol [0] which was posted here a while back.

I tried to read about Willow, but could never make heads or tails of it [1]. It seems to be a hierarchical key value store with a bunch of extra fields for timestamps and cryptographic tokens, but it's woefully short on working examples. Even the recent Rust library [2] is effectively a bunch of abstract classes with implementations that just throw errors.

I could make a quip about the state of European tech sophistication, but I'll let it pass with a polite smile.

[0] https://willowprotocol.org/earthstar/spec/

[1] https://willowprotocol.org/specs/data-model/index.html#data_...

[2] https://github.com/earthstar-project/willow-rs/tree/main

Not entirely following what this is?

A document and media database of some sort with lots of JavaScript involved somehow? Aimed at something vaguely self-host-ish? With mastodon-ish replication to peer nodes?

Seems like there is an ambitious grand vision happening here of sorts but not quite seeing it.