RFE: “When to use this” in documentation about python-mbedtls

[Synss]

Hi Felipe,

Thank you for your interest. This is a strange question I cannot answer better than you. I do not know why people use this library or star it. All I know about its users are the stars, forks, and issues you can find here as well. This is FOSS! 😊

I think some people just read the code in order to understand (upstream/C) mbedTLS. Then, some users need DTLS and a few other features this library proposes and that are not commonly available in alternative Python libraries, or at least they were not the last time I checked.

You are very welcome to write a blog post and publish benchmarks elsewhere. The same goes with patches that would increase the performance of this library.

Do you know why Python is such a popular programming language when C++ and other compiled languages are so much faster? 😉

Best,
Mathias

[FGasper]

@Synss Python is, of course, popular for the same reason as node.js: it’s easier than C++ et al. Python ssl versus this library doesn’t seem to have the same distinction, AFAICT, though I would agree that OpenSSL’s enormous C API is more imposing than mbedTLS’s.

I’d love to make your library faster, but mbedTLS itself seems to be the bottleneck.

I’m sorry if this was an awkward question/RFE. There are other language bindings to mbedTLS around (e.g., Lua), so clearly a critical mass of folks out there does find this useful; I really am just wondering what those use cases are.

Anyhow, thanks.