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discuss your requirements.


### Write a Wrapper
### Build Your Own Wrapper

If you're comfortable with a little bit of Rust, write your own small
wrapper around iroh that covers just what you need and exposes your application
specific functionality over a local http server or daemon. This approach:
If you're comfortable with a little bit of Rust, you can write your own wrapper
around iroh. This can be a small application-specific binary that exposes
functionality over a local HTTP server or daemon, or a full FFI wrapper from
Rust to your target language (Python, Go, etc.). Either way, this gives you:

- Gives you full control over the functionality you expose
- Requires minimal Rust knowledge beyond basic CLI patterns
- Can be called from any language
- Check out [sendme](https://github.com/n0-computer/sendme), [callme](https://github.com/n0-computer/callme), and [dumbpipe](https://github.com/n0-computer/dumbpipe) as examples

### Build Your Own FFI Wrapper

Write your own FFI wrapper from Rust to your target language (Python, Go, etc.)
that covers just what you need from the iroh API and protocols. This gives you:

- Complete control over the API surface
- Full control over the API surface you expose
- The ability to tailor it to your specific use case
- Type-safe bindings for your language
- Reference [iroh-ffi](https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-ffi) for patterns and examples
- Type-safe bindings for your language (with FFI)
- Can be called from any language (with an HTTP wrapper)

While it's easy to get a first version working, **ongoing maintenance and
testing is the hard part**. Iroh is under active development, and keeping
wrappers up to date with new releases, testing across platforms, and handling
edge cases takes sustained effort. The number0 team runs a testing lab for
this purpose. If you need production-grade bindings, [contact
us](https://cal.com/team/number-0/iroh-services) to discuss your requirements.

### Community Bindings

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