mueslix

Great. You added my project to your site without asking, then cold-emailed me about it, and wrapped the whole thing in a thin layer of "congratulations". Let me be direct: this is not flattering. It's spam.

On top of that, you're asking me to pay to "boost" something I never requested, and to help amplify your marketing on Hacker News. Essentially the holy trinity of:

1. Unsolicited outreach 2. Monetizing someone else's work without consent 3. Trying to recruit the very people you spam as your distribution channel

That's not community building. That's growth hacking at the expense of maintainers.

Sorry, that was a misunderstanding. Only the chat is using web sockets, the video stream is served as HLS.

1. Websockets

2. Depends on the size of chunks and amount of files in the HLS playlist. Both are configurable values. Anywhere between 3 and 20 seconds

3. Not yet, but it's planned

One of the authors here: it should actually automatically detect your background color and adjust its theme to it. Alternatively you can pick a different style with `-s`, or even write your own one!

This is rather unfortunate. If only the spammers realized they could simply post four PRs on their own repos. That would at least limit the problem somewhat.

A fairly short answer: code readability.

People seem to try to write their code as compact as possible, not realizing that they usually only write a piece of code once, but they and others will have to decipher and make sense of it a dozen times in the near future.

It was originally written to work nicely with IPredator first, simply because that's our current VPN service of choice. UDP support will probably come, but it actually severely impacted performance (about 30% slower). Trying to squeeze out as much bandwidth as possible, we focused on the TCP part for now.

All the heavier processing is done in C already. Lua is only used for handling dis-/reconnects, rekeying and the likes. Hence I don't think LuaJIT would improve the performance much in this particular case.

That may be true for Intel CPUs, but you're forgetting the Raspberry Pis, ODROIDs, APUs et cetera.