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by pcl 1163 days ago
But that still depends on a pre-established route between the devices (shared wifi etc), right? Native apps can do WiFi Direct and BT and whatnot as well.
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This could be one of the rare opportunities for more backend-oriented people (well, "non-front-end" people) to make something end-user-interesting by taking some appropriately licenced UI and running with it: put an existing "card table" web client in a tauri app and add some "Desk Area Network" distributed backend.

Might be a fun demonstration project for persons or orgs wanting to show off distributed consistency protocols. You might even add some blockchain to the mix if you have a thing for stale buzzwords. For a company with a product in the distributed consistency field, it could make a nice trade show booth giveaway: "this is actually our product, and you can even challenge each other on the plane back home, that's how special it is"