That's very interesting, thanks for the links. I'm working on Scuttlebutt (like Dat/Hypercore) and have been working on reimplementing our stack with 'boring' tooling like SQLite and HTTP, and I've been really enjoying it so far.
I'm going to read your blog post now, thanks a lot for the new info.
Christian has also put some work into the underlying database and such lately, but the user facing part of that is Oasis [1] which aims to be an ssb interface that has a no-JS UI, with all the logic being handled by the (locally running) nodeJS server.
I'm going to read your blog post now, thanks a lot for the new info.