On the one hand it means the web moves (or can move) closer to decentralized modes of operation. Bittorrent is tried and tested and Works (TM).
On the other hand, it also means yet one more thing that moves into the freaking browser. We have enough things nowadays that are shoehorned into HTML/JS when really they would have been more usable even if written in tcl/tk.
Alternatively: every bittorrent client I have used (at least on macOS) is really, really bad. I used to use Deluge, which was buggy and slow to begin with. Then they stopped distributing an installer for it, so you had to install it with pip (!) and run it from the command line. God forbid I `brew upgrade python` or my bittorrent client will probably break.
Transmission crashes for me, and has little activity. Sometimes it just can't open torrent files.
The web doesn't break. You can load a URL, get some decent software with an easily-improvable UI—and assuming you're on a modern browser—expect it to work with no installation, in seconds. And if a site pushes an update, I hit refresh and get the update without needing to run a 45-minute `pip install` command.
fwiw, I've used qBittorrent on osx and found it to be usable. I'll admit that was a few years back, so maybe they (read: apple) broke that one in the meantime.
Oh, also, coming out of an hour long intercom session trying to explain to a customer rep how "no, I didn't change anything in my firefox, your site just suddenly doesn't log me in any longer" I'll posit that the web breaks all the time and all over the place, in many small, annoying ways.
Alternatively, it means BitTorrent is now supported by any number of esoteric operating systems, rather than just the ones the developer using Tcl/Tk chose to target :)
I'll let that count, but only because of the nice snideness of it. :P
Seriously though, you'll be hard-pressed to find a platform where you can't run at least rtorrent or such. and if you're running some esoteric unix from way back when, I expect you to be able to compile it for that yourself. :P
On the one hand it means the web moves (or can move) closer to decentralized modes of operation. Bittorrent is tried and tested and Works (TM).
On the other hand, it also means yet one more thing that moves into the freaking browser. We have enough things nowadays that are shoehorned into HTML/JS when really they would have been more usable even if written in tcl/tk.
You win some, you lose some I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯