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Re:Replacing WebRTC: real-time latency with WebTransport and... by modeless on Monday October 30, 2023 @03:30PM (#38074495)
Yeah. From what I can see WebRTC is basically a ready made implementation of a video calling app, bolted on the side of the browser, that you can slap some UI on top of. If you want to do anything that isn't a straight Zoom style video calling app (or Stadia), you'll immediately run into a wall of 5 year old known but unfixed bugs, or worse.

To be fair, video calling is an incredibly important use case and I'm glad it can be done in the browser. I just hope that WebRTC really can someday be replaced by composing multiple APIs that are much smaller in scope and more flexible to allow for use cases other than essentially Zoom and Stadia.

Re:Replacing WebRTC: real-time latency with WebTransport and... by est on Monday October 30, 2023 @10:11PM (#38079305)
> WebRTC is basically a ready made implementation of a video calling app, bolted on the side of the browser

Yeah, Google bought GlobalIPSound, dumps the source code to w3c as a standard.