24 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 18 Apr 2022 \ on: CLN vs LND vs ECL bitcoin
You forgot to mention LDK which is seeing more and more use as time goes on. Also IMMORTAN which @fiatjaf is fond of.
A similar question was asked awhile ago, but focused more toward devs: #13364
Here was my answer to why we use LND for SN. I'm really curious about what's going on in other impls though.
For SN, we use LND. It'd be wrong to call it my favorite, because I hadn't and still haven't really evaluated the alternatives. It just seemed more developer friendly (again, it might not actually be because I have no basis for an evaluation).
Retrospective reasoning:
  1. I could build and run it on my mac
  2. it had a gRPC interface and easy to use javascript wrappers
  3. the slack was active with people from a variety of skill levels and questions were answered quickly
  4. they have tons of documentation and developer guides
  5. it seemed like most developers were building on top of it vs other impls lightning is the sole focus of the company behind it and that made me feel more confident that the project would continue to improve and exist
  6. I've programmed a lot in golang recently and felt more confident in my ability to deal with builds and any required customization/contributions in the future (while I've programmed more in C than golang, and even prefer programming C, golang is notoriously dull and free of magic so reading/modifying someone else's go code is more approachable than someone's C code)
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @Zk2u OP 18 Apr 2022
thank you! yes, i knew of LDK too. need to dig more into how it works more. isn’t cash app using it? i wonder what that implementation looks like. IMMORTAN i hadn’t heard of but also looks interesting.
i am asking for a few reasons
  1. get a perspective about what the current dev space looks like around LN (i’ve been doing stuff with stacks since mainnet launch jan, currently starting up a new co called Valera Labs, where we’re pivoting to more bitcoin-based than stacks-based stuff)
  2. at valera we’re looking at building a new LN wallet combined with some other things. not sure what architecture we’ll use, what implementations we should and where. breez is using LND on a mobile device which is very interesting and we’re looking into their tech now. but breez runs its own nodes too acting as an LSP (i’m guessing these are probably LND too)
  3. i’m thinking of building a routing node on some decently high-powered arm chip just for supporting the network and getting experience
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19 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 18 Apr 2022
i knew of LDK too. need to dig more into how it works more. isn’t cash app using it?
Yep, reason being they wanted something that was easy to plug deeply into their existing infrastructure.
breez is using LND on a mobile device which is very interesting and we’re looking into their tech now. but breez runs its own nodes too acting as an LSP (i’m guessing these are probably LND too)
Breez is transitioning to use Greenlight and Core LN: #18247
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