There seems to be not too much interest in or hype about WebTransport. FF and Safari don't support it yet. MDN does not contain a single mention of WebTransport.

I think it's missing a killer app. But I am not sure what WebTransport would enable that isn't already possible with current APIs. Unreliable datagrams? WebRTC. Reliable bidirectional communication? WebSockets. WebTransport probably would make some of the usecases easier or more efficient but it's value proposition isn't well communicated or better yet, demonstrated.

To be clear: I like WebTransport and want to see it supported widely. But it needs a bit better communication of its value proposition. It needs a bunch of examples for both client and server side. Ideally with a comparison to their WebSocket and WebRTC counter parts to highlight the advantages.

EDIT: Chrome on Android DOES support WebTransport. I previously claimed it doesn't based on the incorrect info on https://caniuse.com/webtransport but have since verified it myself that at least Chrome v103 on Android 12 does indeed support WebTransport.

> Unreliable datagrams? WebRTC

It's was an interminable wait for WebRTC data channels.

Is there a trivial way to get a WebRTC connection to a server now, without pretending that server is a peer and doing the whole handshake dance?

Do you still see challenges with doing WebRTC on a server? I work on https://github.com/pion/webrtc so would love to hear what could be better :)

And are you going to run a dedicated signaling service and do all that STUN karate to just connect the peer to a publicly available server?

For my small projects I run my HTTP + WebRTC in the same server. My signaling is one POST. Maybe I am missing the complexity, but I don't feel any additional pain compared to running any network service?

> STUN Karate

Mind explaining more? You don't use STUN for connecting to a world routable host.

If you need it I use https://github.com/pion/turn and run my STUN server embedded in my HTTP server. I do do anything but point my `PeerConnection` at `my-service.com`