yeah, acinq's work is the top shelf in LN

it's funny because LND gets all the bad press, and it is bad, especially BTCD... so that puts breez in a bad spot, but CLN is not as good as acinq either

although i'm sure that choice of language does matter, ie, C is ancient and crappy and complex, the legacy of btcd/lnd is a codebase that is badly written, slow and unstable, even though the language tries to help you avoid stupidity like this, and the rustaceans have nothing to say because they don't have an entrant in the race at all, not even a bitcoin node yet, and here we have acinq with their Java based infra that is basically the best

and they have the lowest profile in the media...