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Re:HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 explained by jsnell on Thursday March 14, 2024 @09:33AM (#39703782)
That's a pretty silly take. You're basically asserting that implementation difficulty is always the main priority, and there can never be any worthwhile tradeoffs that could offset that complexity.

But in reality, the world probably only needs a few dozen H3 implementations, just like there are only tens of production TCP stacks. But those implementations will be used by billions of people, hundreds of billions of machines, and handle effectively all data transmission of the entire humanity.

The leverage is massive, even the most minor improvements will be able to pay off any level of engineering effort.

Re:HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 explained by pi-e-sigma on Thursday March 14, 2024 @12:18PM (#39705852)
Enter IPv6. Same arguments, it's 'only' a matter of implementation. 30 years later still most of the implementations are worse than IPv4.
Re:HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 explained by sylware on Thursday March 14, 2024 @04:30PM (#39708593)
At least IPv6 is reasonably scaled for our world which IPv4 was never meant to be (The abomination of NAT).