3. Hard and soft limitations

As we stick to our total transparency, “no-bullshit” agenda, we want to reveal what we see as limitations, along with the cool stuff we’ve done.

No rating system for Agents and Clients

It wasn’t in the roadmap, but we wanted to see it in this release — the Agent’s and Client’s quality assurance system (rating system). It is a necessary part of Privatix Core Network components and, unfortunately, we haven’t done and tested it until this time. It will be implemented in future releases.

Less platforms than expected

We are obviously fully aware that Linux (Ubuntu) is — to put it mildly — not as universally popular as Windows and OSX. We originally planned to include these operating systems in the current release and we are using Golang which permits cross-platform compilation, but we’ve now decided to do that in future releases. In our opinion, at this stage, it’s necessary to attract more tech-savvy people to the process and make all the necessary QAs in one environment, before we move forward.

Installation package weight

We decided to go on all-in-one installation package in favor of small package size. This simplifies installation and makes it more robust, even in complicated environments.

Users don’t have to download and install additional dependencies — we’ll take care of that. In future, there will be a selection of packages, and users will be able to choose the one that suits them best. Software comes in containers separate from other applications, but it takes up disk space — about 500MB for both Agent and Client. But for most users, this won’t be crucial. In future, we’ll be working on this build to make it more compact and modular.

Token abstraction

In the production version, we will certainly have to make life as easy and private as possible for our regular users. Token abstraction — or so-called in-build token swaps — will be necessary, but it’s not something we should be spending valuable resources on right now.

Even in this article, the CEO mentions that decentralized exchanges are a necessary part of future products and that the vision is clear. At this time, many projects working in this area and spending scarce development resources doing the same thing is not clever.

Even now, we have very convenient solutions like 0x or Airswap.io. They are already on the fast development track, and there will be more. Until we get our production version up and running, they will do the job and we’ll integrate with them in a few strokes of code.