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Can you, pedantic neckbeards, stop whining about people shortening "soft realtime" to "realtime."


Bzzzt. Web "real time" isn't even soft real time, really, in the traditional sense.

It mostly just means "web sockets" so that you're not polling the web server to get updates. And honestly that's a pretty nice development in web development, and something to celebrate. Just that it's not the same thing that a lot of us think of when we think "real time software".




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