>I kind of miss long polling. It was so stupidly simple compared to newer tech, and that's coming from someone who thinks WebRTC is the best thing since sliced

>I kind of miss long polling. It was so stupidly simple compared to newer tech, and that's coming from someone who thinks WebRTC is the best thing since sliced bread. I still use it all the time. There are plenty of applications where the request overhead is reasonable in exchange for keeping everything within the context of an existing HTTP API.