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0 pointsTomMarius6y ago0 comments

You can't cross compile anything other than crypto miners or how does it not help anything else?

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fxtentacle6y ago· 2 in thread

Most of the other uses are pointless.

I don't need WebRTC for chat, because IRC is still working just fine.

I don't need WebRTC for video calls, because Skype is still working just fine.

I don't need WebRTC and WebAssembly for online gaming, because I have Steam to install games locally. Plus latency and performance of games emscripten-ed to wasm tends to be atrocious.

So the only uses where I have seen the new Web* APIs in my life was obnoxious ads and newspaper websites trying to shove recommendations and notifications into my face.

What would you want to cross-compile that couldn't be done much better by building a proper local app?

fxtentacle6y ago

Plenty of downvotes, but no productive suggestion of what use-case would be best served with WebRTC ...

seangrogg6y ago

WebRTC enables many of these things on the browser. That is the point. So your "I don't need WebRTC because I use native apps" is basically just "I don't need the internet because I can go next door to talk to my neighbors".

Just because something doesn't have value for you does not suggest it does not have value, period.

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