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In regards to the difficulty of using WebRTC, the API was created by Ericsson which also invented Erlang, a language renowned for its concurrency capabilities b
by bobbyz 6y ago
In regards to the difficulty of using WebRTC, the API was created by Ericsson which also invented Erlang, a language renowned for its concurrency capabilities but also its otherworldly syntax, so it shares that same uncannily foreign design and syntax. If there was any one company that was employing technology from an advanced alien civilization, my suspicions would immediately fall on Ericsson.
- kohtatsu 6y agoHuh, that's actually pretty neat.
- hackcasual 6y agoSame company sure, but different people and really different eras. That'd be like saying the company that built DX12 was the same company that built BASIC. WebRTC's arcane operations are more a product of the realities of peer-to-peer communication in a mostly NAT'ted world and SIP. Ericsson was big into IMS, and if you rub some Web on IMS, you get WebRTC.
- bobbyz 6y agoI get your point, but there must be some sort of connection. Erlang and WebRTC are two of the strangest things I've ever seen. It would seem implausible for one company to repeatedly produce such oddities by chance.