If you want to compare iroh with something out of the IPFS world, iroh is basically "what if you build libp2p on multipath QUIC".

If you want full ipfs functionality, we have a number of protocols you can combine: blobs https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-blobs and gossip https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-gossip .

There is one thing we do not have yet - global content discovery. The reason for this is that so far we have not found a way to do it in a way that just works.

It is a very hard problem, but I hope we can come up with a solution so we can cover the use cases that initially got me excited about IPFS many years ago.