- "Hyperdrive" was formerly the internal data-structure name of Dat archives. With this release, the team decided to rename the protocol from Dat to Hypercore Protocol. Subsequently, "Dat Archives" are now "Hyperdrives." The Dat community will post some updates about this soon.
- The hyperdrive-daemon does not support dat:// URLs. I don't know what the future of dat:// URLs will be but Beaker is phasing them out with a converter tool.
Beaker uses Hyperdrive, it's basically the source of its novel features. The Beaker team works on Hyperdrive (the Hypercore Protocol) but we maintain a separate org at https://github.com/hypercore-protocol
2 questions:
- What is the difference between dat and hyperdrive ?
- I see hyperdrive manages hyper:// urls -- what about dat:// urls ? Will they be still managed ?