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		VikingCoder on Sept 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WebTorrent now works in the browser, end-to-end It doesn't need to be a native code extension; that's not what I'm talking about. In Chrome, you can write browser extensions that are essentially off-screen web pages (in simple HTML and JS). Two advantages of "do it in the browser" are, in theory it would run on every platform that browser is installed on with no additional run-time required (like Python or Java), and two, it could run on Chromebooks. Say, in Incognito mode.

the8472 on Sept 15, 2014 [–]

But in case of a browser-extension you just substitute "python" with "chrome" as a runtime.

VikingCoder on Sept 16, 2014 | [–]

Yeah, you're right. Do you want to compare the install base of Python versus that of browsers like Chrome and Firefox?

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