He is probably conflating Pear and Hypercore because I have started conflating them out of simplicity. I would say the underlying foundation is a protocol but it doesn’t really compete with any other, it just uses them all to create a new networking trick
I understand pear is a runtime now. I'm still kind of confused how this runtime enabled a moe p2p network. Like does it run applications on a client from a server p2p? Where the server client are the same network across space? I'm trying to wrap my head around this. I'm at work and don't have time to play with it right now.