When is MaidSafe Launching?

[dyamanaka]

The Devs were “trying” to finish TestNet2 by Dec 2014.

But recent code rewrites delayed it… for good reason. This thread and @Al_Kafir’s telephone analogy explains it nicely. See below…

"The language of the network" (blog post by David)

Just to re-factor my reply for non-coders like myself…lol: . An analogy would be that David opened up a telephone exchange box stuffed full of inter- weaving “consensus Group” wires. His task over the last few months has been trying to explain this spaghetti wiring to everybody, using words and diagrammatically- the system worked, but hard to explain why - even to other engineers. This has hindered community dev involvement as all the explaining takes up time. He then noticed that there were…

Could we have pushed through with the way the code was written? Probably.

Gavin Anderson said collaborators of Bitcoin thought the code was genius but also outright messy in other areas. It’s still being developed.

I realize none of this matters to some people, and that’s okay. I too thought we were going to hit TestNet3 by Jan 2015. But I’m glad the Devs are trying to simplify the code, and make it easier for future developers to understand and build on top of it.