Pion
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“the Pion FAQ page has a good description”
“I used pion and it was fantastic”
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“I use pion thanks for making it!”
“pion is an excellent product today”
Caveats and dissent
“Everyone who's actually gone to one of their AI-run businesses ends up seeming really unimpressed”
“it's just a bunch of the usual slop about how awesome your automated human-exploitation system is.”
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“but forked after benchmarking revealed that it was too slow.”
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Pion is free and opensource and we don't get paid”
“I added this in Pion here[0] and I remember testing against Chrome + FireFox and it seemed to work great!”
“Very grateful that OpenAI published the article/publicized their usage of Pion[0] a library I work on.”
I've bookmarked your project years ago to attempt implementing webrtc fully in a niche programming language. But I think I may have vastly underrated how difficult this is. Have you come across https://github.com/elixir-webrtc/ex_webrtc ? Wasn't sure if they used Pion as a guide
Threads where it came up
- How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale 5 mentions
- Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously 4 mentions
- item 46413053 2 mentions
- Tell HN: Anthropic found 36 bugs (6 CVEs) in Pion, OpenAI missed them 1 mention
- The iPad was on Tailscale: a WebRTC debugging story 1 mention
- Ask HN: What are you working on (non-AI)? 1 mention
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All comments 13
“Waitlist btw”
“Everyone who's actually gone to one of their AI-run businesses ends up seeming really unimpressed”
“it's just a bunch of the usual slop about how awesome your automated human-exploitation system is.”
“Pion is already the name of a very well established webrtc project”
“but forked after benchmarking revealed that it was too slow.”
“the Pion FAQ page has a good description”
“I used pion and it was fantastic”
“I use pion thanks for making it!”
“pion is an excellent product today”
“Pion has a Discord”
“The example swap-tracks[0] shows a good way to do that.”
Thank you!! It wouldn't have been possible without your enthusiasm and encouragement! I think a lot of people are interested in making cool things but bridging the gap between looking at the project from the outside and actually doing something can be scary, especially for people who are contributing to open-source projects for the first time. For people who are extremely new, it helps a lot to either have direct gui
“I wrote a custom SFU using the Pion library to handle WebRTC signaling and RTP forwarding”