Interesting, hadn’t looked recently to see that. Ian Clark, aka Toad, wrote both though and likely just wanted to take advantage of the name recognition from Freenet without all the uproar that happened when they announced the 0.5 to 0.7 rewrite of Freenet. Back then, it was migrating TCP to UDP now it’s moving from Java to Rust. Both though end up being an effective reset of the odd little sub-web we know as Freenet.
Interesting, hadn’t looked recently to see that. Ian Clark, aka Toad, wrote both though and likely just wanted to take advantage of the name recognition from Freenet without all the uproar that happened when they announced the 0.5 to 0.7 rewrite of Freenet. Back then, it was migrating TCP to UDP now it’s moving from Java to Rust. Both though end up being an effective reset of the odd little sub-web we know as Freenet.