The nice thing about WebRTC is this works (pretty much) everywhere! Someone could throw up Python/Android/iOS/Go/Web/C++ Clients really easily. That is really exciting.
Also just a HUGE fan of NAT Traversal/P2P in general. The less dependence we can have on others for sharing our data the better.
Huh, what did I miss?! How do you make a WebRTC-client in language-of-your-choice? The last time I checked for C++ I only found answers like "look at the chrome source". lol.
* https://github.com/pion/webrtc
* https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc
* https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/webrtc/index...
Lately I am seeing a lot of stuff in the broadcast space (mixer.com), robotics and IoT. I am really enjoying the Teleoperation stuff as well, people are remotely controlling cars/robots with WebRTC.
- I wanted to setup ssh access to some machines in a complicated network in a shared office, over which I had no control. After trying various NAT traversal hacks, I realized the potential of WebRTC to do all that for me, and setup ssh over webrtc. I made it from a bunch of hacks, but some people seem to have built that properly now, ex: https://github.com/mxseba/rtc-ssh
- I built some tech demos that needed to run on multiple OS and use the webcam. Initially I relied on opencv, but I needed to dockerize things and outside of Linux the webcam device passthrough is a pain. Instead I made a simple webpage fetching the video feed and talking to a python backend (using this great library: https://github.com/aiortc/aiortc), and it worked nicely. It also has been surprisingly easy to setup.
Where be at the Node.js verzhun?
I see you are a Recurser (me as well!) I was Summer 2012 I think? Are you doing this as a project during your batch? I would really love to do a talk/deep dive on WebRTC as a talk sometime for Recursers, you should float the idea to Sonali and get me in :p
Definitely give a talk if you can. It's all remote currently!
I really want to get more Go developers into WebRTC/P2P, that was my goal for this year. It is hard to convince conference developers WebRTC is more interesting then all the DevsOps stuff! I am putting in the good fight though.