Clients and tools comparison

[Moul]

As for software features comparisons on Wikis (eg: Clients XMPP), I would like that we compile tables to compare different aspects of Duniter clients and tools. This is famous for XMPP clients which check boxes of implemented XEPs (RFCs for features). I would like to do the same for Duniter clients and tools to get a better picture. This post is in wiki mode, feel free to edit.

General aspects

Criterias\Clients	Cesium	Silkaj	Ğcli	Tikka	Ğecko	Ğ1nkgo	Ğ1Companion	WotWizard/ui	Wotmap
Logo			✘
Presentation website/ Documentation	cesium.app	silkaj.duniter.org	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	Link
Repositories	GitLab / GH	Silkaj	Ğcli	Tikka	Ğecko	Ğ1nkgo	GitLab	Back/Front	GitLab
Maintainers	@kimamila	@Moul	@tuxmain	@vit	@poka	@vjrj	@ManUtopiK	@gerard94 / @Paidge	@Paidge
Public announcement	May 2016	Sept. 2016	Nov 2022	Dec. 2020	Dec. 2020	Mar 2023	Jan. 2022	August 2017/Dec 2021	April 2018
First public release	May 2016	Sept. 2016	✘	Oct. 2021	Dec. 2020	Mar 2023	✘	Sept. 2017/Dec 2021	May 2018
Latest stable version	1.7.9	0.11.1	✘	0.9.2	0.1.0	0.2.4	✘	5.8.2/ 2.0.0	0.4.0
Date of latest stable version	Aug 2023	Aug 2023	✘	Aug 2023	Mar 2022	Aug 2023	✘	May 2022/Feb 2022	May 2021
Development version	1.7.x	0.12.0dev	git	git	git	git	git	git	git
Software license	AGPLv3+	AGPLv3+	AGPLv3+	GPLv3+	AGPLv3+	AGPLv3+	MIT	GPLv3	GPLv3
Platforms	Multi	Unix	Multi?	Unix	Mobile	Mobile/Browser	Browser extension	Unix/Browser	Browser
Available languages	6	en	en	en, fr	en, fr	6	3	4	fr
Intended audience	Public	Advanced	Advanced	Enterprise	Public/Mobile	Public/Mobile	Public	Public	Public
Specialty	Complete, friendly interface	Command Line Interface (CLI)	Command Line Interface (CLI)	Desktop client for companies, accountants	Transaction ease on markets	Transaction ease on markets	Web integration	WoT Exploration	WoT Exploration
Programming language	JavaScript	Python	Rust	Python	Dart	Dart	TypeScript	Go/JS	JS
User interface framework/library	Angular v1	Click/Texttable	clap	Qt5	Flutter	Flutter	Vue	Vue	SigmaJS
Tied to Duniter (Nd.js/Substrate)	v1	v1	v2	v2	v2	v1	v2?	v1	v1

Web of Trust

Criterias\Clients	Cesium	Silkaj	Tikka	Ğecko	Ğ1nkgo	Ğ1Companion	WotWizard/ui	Wotmap
Look up for public keys and identities			✘			✘
Check sent and received certifications			✘	✘	✘	✘
Consult the membership status			✘		✘	✘		✘
Send certification			✘		✘	✘	✘	✘
Send membership			✘		✘	✘	✘	✘
Revocation support			✘		✘	✘	✘	✘
Identity support		✘	✘		✘	✘	✘	✘
(v2) Change owner_key	✘	✘	?	?	✘	✘	✘	✘
Exclusion forecast	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘		✘
Membership procurement forecast	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘		✘
Notify effective exclusions	✘		✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
Warn Sybil attacks	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘

Money

Criterias\Clients	Cesium	Silkaj	Tikka	Ğecko	Ğ1nkgo	Ğ1Companion
Balance						✘
Transaction history			✘			✘
Displays UDs		✘	✘	?	✘	✘
Send transaction						✘
Send multi-recipients transaction	✘		✘	✘	✘	✘
Send multi-issuers transaction	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
Automated transaction	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
Support absolute and relative units					✘	✘
(v2) UD creation	✘	✘	?	?	✘	✘

Blockchain explorer

Criterias\Clients	Cesium	Silkaj	Tikka	Ğecko	Ğ1nkgo	Ğ1Companion
Check the present currency information stand/parameters				✘	✘	✘
(v1) Display current proof of work difficulty level to generate the next block	✘		✘	✘	✘	✘
Explore the blockchain block by block		/✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
(v1) Verify blockchain blocks hashes	✘		✘	✘	✘	✘

Smith-WoT, Node admin, Technical Committee

Criterias\Clients	Cesium	Silkaj	Tikka	Ğecko	Ğ1nkgo	Ğ1Companion
(v2) Blacksmith sub-WoT handling smith-wot: certify, lookup, membership, revocation, status	✘	✘	?	✘	✘	✘
(v2) Smith license integration	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
(v2) Node administration smith: rotate-key, go-offline, go-online	✘	✘	?	✘	✘	✘
(v2) Technical Committee actions: list-members, list-proposals, vote	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘

Other features

Criterias\Clients	Cesium	Silkaj	Tikka	Ğecko	Ğ1nkgo	Ğ1Companion
Ğ1 monetary license integration			outdated en/fr	✘	✘	✘
Multi-currencies support				?	✘	✘
Configuration support		✘		?
QR code display and scan		✘				✘
(v1) Mnemonic support (RFC_0014)		✘			?	✘
(v1) Public key checksum support (RFC_0016)			✘	✘	✘	✘
(v2) Key derivation support	✘	✘			✘	✘
(v2) Save and read encrypted json authentication method	✘	✘	?	?	✘	✘

Network

Criterias\Clients	Cesium	Silkaj	Tikka	Ğecko	Ğ1nkgo	Ğ1Companion	WotWizard/ui
Client API	BMA	BMA	RPC	RPC	BMA/GVA	?	Duniter v1.8 DB
Support custom endpoint						?	✘
List of bootstrap nodes	✘	✘				✘	✘
P2P	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
Cesium+		✘	✘				✘
(v2) Indexer	✘	✘	?	?	✘	✘	✘

Distribution

Criterias\Clients	Cesium	Silkaj	Tikka	Ğecko	Ğ1nkgo	Ğ1Companion
Official Debian/Ubuntu repositories	✘		✘	✘	✘	✘
Official Fedora Linux repository	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
Official Arch Linux repository	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
Python Package Index	✘			✘	✘	✘
Docker distribution	✘		✘	✘		✘
F-droid official repository	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
F-droid unofficial repository		✘	✘		✘	✘
Google Play Store		✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
Apple Store (iOS)		✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
(amo) Mozilla add-ons: Firefox/Thunderbird		✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
Google Chrome add-ons		✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
Apple Safari add-ons		✘	✘	✘	✘	✘
YunoHost package		✘	✘	✘	✘	✘

Development Environment

Criterias\Clients	Cesium	Silkaj	Tikka	Ğecko	Ğ1nkgo	Ğ1Companion
Unit tests	?					✘
Integration tests	?				✘	✘
Test coverage	?	82%	✘	?	?	✘
CI/CD	✘:broken				✘	✘
git hooks (pre-commit)	✘			✘	✘	✘
Formatted code	?					?
Linted code	?					?
Typed variables	?

[gerard94]

@Moul

WotWizard/ui

Je ne pense pas qu’il faille invoquer ici WotWizard-ui, qui est un client du serveur WotWizard. Seul ce dernier est un client de Duniter.

[Moul]

WotWizard and WotWizard-ui are two separated repositories, but one is doing the backend stuff and the other the frontend stuff. In the end, they are serving the same purpose, and wotwizard-ui presents and displays in much better way the information.

[Paidge]

I just added the wotmap with a new capability : warn Sybil attacks.

[gerard94]

Est-ce que tu peux préciser la licence de WotWizard-ui, s’il te plaît ?

[Paidge]

Comme tous mes projets, je m’en tamponne un peu le coquillard que qqun reprenne le code. Ce sera donc GPLv3 ou qqe chose du genre. Je m’en occupe dès que j’ai 5min

[Moul]

@kimamila, @vit, @poka, and anyone else can you double check that the information are correct. Please fix, and complete if needed. Do you have ideas about additional criteria of comparison?