Communication

Question

If I made a chess app and 2 people could play with each other wirelessly. Or, if I made a app that allows people to communicate with each other wirelessly what laguage would support those needs.

Any information given is appreciated; thank you

Answer 1

I made one with C# and lidgren library. You could try that.

Answer 2

Socket.io is also a good choice if you are into javascript and nodejs

Answer 3

A bit unconventional idea:
https://webrtc.github.io/samples/src/content/datachannel/basic/
in case you don't want to bother with a server... just one thing's - I've tried to use the media capability once... I could not make it run on MAC

Answer 4

These days, when I hear "network apps", I think of NodeJS:
https://nodejs.org/en/about/
"...[JavaScript] designed to build scalable network applications."

However...Node is usually run on a server and I do not know if it is relatively hard (like: confusing the issue) for this type of problem.

On that page, notice that Node was influenced by Python's Twisted framework:
https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/
"...networking engine written in Python ... making custom network applications easy ..."

and Ruby's Event Machine (article link website is down).

Perhaps one of these is useful?

Answer 5

Do you know of a language that specialzes in that sole perpose?