UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible

Re:UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible by wat10000 on Thursday October 30, 2025 @02:44PM (#45763669)

This is a rather long-winded way of saying "unreliable means it doesn't retransmit for you, it doesn't mean it's shit." Which, duh? I don't know, maybe there are people out there who need to hear this, but I'd think that anyone who knows what UDP is at all will also understand the sense in which it's "unreliable."

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Re:UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible by mlhpdx on Thursday October 30, 2025 @06:02PM (#45765923)

Fair. But there are legions of developers blindly doing REST over HTTP and creating bad experiences. I know it's fine for many, many cases -- but not all.

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Re:UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible by wat10000 on Friday October 31, 2025 @11:28AM (#45773145)

For sure. But I don't think it's because they think UDP is shit because it's unreliable. It's because most ecosystems make REST over HTTP much, much easier than using UDP.

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Re:UDP Isn't Unreliable, It's a Conertible by mlhpdx on Friday October 31, 2025 @09:32PM (#45778540)

Could not agree more, and that is a problem I’m happy to be working on with my startup.

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