Can anyone compare Brave to Beaker Browser? I've long been interested in Dat vs ...

kickscondor · on Jan 20, 2021

Beaker also supports regular web links - but Brave also supports Tor websites.

However, Beaker has its own extended web API and tooling. You can fork websites, edit them - and you can script this functionality. (For example, I have a wiki software in Beaker that will handle all the forking and editing behind the scenes - using Javascript to make it happen.)

You could say that Brave is a read-only HTML browser with wide support for decentralization protocols. While Beaker is a read-write HTML browser with its own protocol. And they both use the regular web as well.

VoxPelli · on Jan 19, 2021

Just a note that it's nowadays not `dat:` but `hyper:`, a rename of the protocol, that's used by Beaker: https://hypercore-protocol.org/

Acrobatic_Road · on Jan 20, 2021

I know they renamed it, but something inside me want me to keep saying dat. It's familiar.

VoxPelli · on Jan 20, 2021

Same here, and it’s more specific than “hyper”