Samtala

Decentralized Communication Exploration

Samtala (Swedish for "discourse") is an exploratory project aimed at learning about and potentially developing a decentralized, peer-to-peer communication platform. This project is in its very early stages and serves primarily as a learning experience in distributed systems, the Zig programming language, and related technologies.

Project Status: Early Exploration

🚧 This project is in the initial conceptual and learning phase. No functional code is available yet. 🚧

Goals

1. Explore the implementation of a decentralized communication system
2. Learn and apply Zig programming for systems development
3. Experiment with distributed systems concepts
4. Investigate modern encryption and privacy-preserving technologies
5. Document the learning journey and challenges encountered

Potential Features (Subject to Change)

• Peer-to-peer messaging
• End-to-end encryption
• Decentralized chat rooms
• User-controlled data storage
• Cross-platform support

Technologies Under Consideration

• Core Service: Zig
• User Interface: Rust (tentative)
• Networking: Custom UDP protocol, WebRTC
• Data Synchronization: CRDTs, Viewstamped Replication
• Discovery: Distributed Hash Tables (DHT)

Current Focus

The current focus is on research, learning, and initial design. No substantial code has been written yet.

Contribution

While this is primarily a personal learning project, I'm open to discussions, suggestions, and knowledge sharing. Feel free to open issues for discussions or questions.

Development Pace

⚠️ Important Note: This is a side project developed in my spare time alongside full-time employment. Updates and progress may be infrequent and inconsistent.

Follow the Journey

I'll be documenting my learning process and any progress through:

• Updates to this README
• Blog posts
• Occasional code commits as the project progresses